PhD Visual Performing Arts

I am thrilled to announce that i have recently graduated and officially Dr. Ismail Farouk! You can checkout my abstract below: 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, where food is both the subject and medium/method …

The Eaters:: Comedores / The Eaten :: Comidos – São Paulo

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 …

muchoindio

Muchoindio is the title of the artwork that forms part of the digital/online art component  associated with my PhD project. The online work houses several multi-channel short video pieces that play automatically and on a continuous loop along with selected still imagery. The combination of still and video imagery dynamically loads by scrolling down the …

archives of the botanical

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 …