Writing

I write with,
or close to
the body,
into spaces of
interdependence.

I am holding Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s question out to you as I write:
“Who works and what works, for whom and to what end?”

Dear Alia – A letter about trust. A letter written to filmmaker Alia Syed on the occasion of her retrospective at Courtisane festival 2023. Alia Syed: Imprints, Documents, Fictions (ed. María Palacios Cruz) is the first monograph to be devoted to Syed’s work and features new essays by Inga Fraser, Peter Gidal, Rahila Haque, Salima Hashmi, Anjana Janardhan, Ruth Noack and Henrietta Williams, as well as writing by Syed herself – More.

Selected Writing

A Letter, fragment, glimmer, traces in Radio Ballads, Songs for Change
Serpentine Read

Pray for a life without plot, a day without narrative:
Notes on Moving Bodies, Moving images
Whitechapel Read

Permitted to Dream: Reflections on the Brent Biennial 2022

ArtReview
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On Art and Friendship: Expanding What Relation Can Be Wasafari
This text builds on conversations in this podcast: Hear, Now. Episode 13: Artists' Film International 2021: Care Read / Listen

The questioned body; a body of questions LUXRead
A Letter to Leena about Care STUART
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M/Othering for liberation, A declaration of independence, an essay on uprisings, polyphony, mothering and mourning in SEEN Issue 002, Spring 2021

Mothering, family, abolition

M/othering for Liberation: A Declaration of Independence
SEEN Issue 002, Spring 2021
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I do not want what I haven’t got: For Sinead O Connor and anyone who has wanted to die SubstackRead

What do we want from each other after we have told our stories? ARTPAPERS

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Care 1 of 54 in Floating Margins a collection of heart-led texts published by INIVA from ten contributors whose work generatively interrupts linear histories and de-godded cultural discourse. Texts by Adelaide Bannerman and Michael Smythe, Hassan Vawda, Adam Farah and PJ Winter, Amahra Spence, Amal Khalaf, Jemma Desai, Sepake Angiama.

Film
The Desire to write about George Green
A Letter to Onyeka Igwe responding to The Miracle on George Green
Open City Documentary Festival Read
Here to stay Here to fight
an essay on Adam Lewis Jacob’s exhibition Idrish (ইদ্রিস)
LUX
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Programme Notes on Ashim Ahluwalia’s John & JaneBatalha Centro de Cinema
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Programme Notes on the films of Paula Tomás Marques
Batalha Centro de Cinema Read
Programme Notes on Silverlake Life: The View from Here
Batalha Centro de Cinema
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Programme Notes on Luísa Homem and Pedro Pinho’s Trading Cities
Batalha Centro de Cinema
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DVD liner notes On Josephine Decker’s first two features Butter on the Latch & Thou Wast Mild and Lovely Oscilloscope
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