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 …

Webinar: Performative Meetings: 20 Years of Collaborations Between Social and Artistic Movements

I was honoured to participate in Webinar: Performative Meetings: 20 Years of Collaborations Between Social and Artistic Movements, hosted by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as part of the public programme for the exhibition Seeing Through Stone. I was invited by Frente 3 de Fevereiro to …

Conversations in Gondwana

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 …