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 …
Conversations in Gondwana (2019) was a transcontinental, research-driven platform, hosted at the Centre for Contemporary Culture São Paulo (CCSP) with support from the São Paulo State Government. The project paired South African and Brazilian artists in year-long dialogues addressing history, identity, gender, and urban dynamics under a decolonial lens. My collaboration with Daniel Lima included …
In 2018, I had the privilege of serving as academic coordinator for ISEA Durban, one of the leading international symposia on electronic art. Alongside this, I collaborated with Nicole Sarmiento to present a land performance video commemorating 100 years of the Native Land Act in South Africa, reflecting on the ongoing impact of colonial land …