PhD Visual Performing Arts
I am thrilled to announce that i have recently graduated and officially Dr. Ismail Farouk!...
Lo que sabe el agua
‘Lo que sabe el agua’ (2026) is a video installation, part of a larger body...
The Eaters:: Comedores / The Eaten :: Comidos – São Paulo
The work ‘The Eaters:: Comedores / The Eaten :: Comidos’ was realised for a group...
Cancelled Without Prejudice: MAK Center, Los Angeles, Schindler House
Continuing the Locus Remix. Three Contemporary Positions series, Ismail Farouk, a Fellow in the MAK...
muchoindio.com
Muchoindio.com is the name given to the URL associated with the artwork that forms part...
Art for Humanity
Art for Humanity (AFH), hosted by the Durban University of Technology’s Faculty of Art &...
Conversations in Gondwana
Conversations in Gondwana (2019) was a transcontinental, research-driven platform, hosted at the Centre for Contemporary...
Urban Future Manifestos
Urban Future Manifestos (edited by Peter Noever and Kimberli Meyer with texts by Saskia Sassen...
Positions: Contemporary artists in South Africa
My practice was profiled by Cara Snyman in the publication Positions: Contemporary Artists in South...
Venice Architecture Biennale – Cities: Architecture and Society
As part of the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale, themed Cities: Architecture and Society, curated by...
ADPAI: Cedric Nunn – unScene
In 2024, I curated a retrospective of acclaimed documentary photographer Cedric Nunn to coincide with...
archives of the botanical
This set of foraging walks, food, herb and seed shares and curated film screenings was...
isea2018 durban: fracture zone
In 2018, I had the privilege of serving as academic coordinator for ISEA Durban, one...
Land and Erasure I and II
Photos: Ashley Walters, Poem: Toni Steward This collaborative walk and spatial intervention through performance...
Land and Erasure in Contemporary Cape Town
A Short talk presented as part of the commemoration of the 1913 Natives Land Act...














