Farouk submitted his dissertation in Visual and Performing Art from Durban University of Technology (DUT). He is currently waiting for examination results and hopes to graduate in September 2025. Title: Politics of the Gut: Food, Art and Colonial Modernity Abstract This dissertation attempts to lay out a terrain for food-based practice in the Fine Arts, …
The work ‘The Eaters:: Comedores / The Eaten :: Comidos’ was realised for a group exhibition and cultural exchange project called Conversations in Gondwana which culminated in an exhibition hosted at the Centre for Contemporary Culture São Paulo (CCSP), in Brazil, in 2019. The work allowed for a conversation across histories and geographies, personal experiences …
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Muchoindio.com is the name given to the URL associated with the artwork that forms part of the practical component of my PhD dissertation. The webpage houses several multi-channel short video pieces that play automatically and on a continuous loop along with selected still imagery that all make up the webpage. The combination of still and …
This set of foraging walks, food, herb and seed shares and curated film screenings was put together by collaborating artists Nicole Sarmiento, Ismail Farouk and Yasmin Meyer. In Archives of the Botanical you were invited to a day of film screenings, walks and seed/herb shares for Palestine. Alongside the work of visual artist and filmmaker …