Dr Ayesha Hameed

My work generally explores contemporary borders and migration, critical race theory, Walter Benjamin, and visual cultures of the Black Atlantic. My studio practice includes video and performance. My current Postdoctoral research is in two parts: (1) the preparation of a book manuscript entitled The Law of the Jungle Can't Last; and (2) a practice-based research project entitled Performing the Border.

Academic qualifications

Teaching

Presentations and exhibitions

I am currently curating an exhibition based on my research at PM Gallery, London for May 2012.

Grants & awards

Banff Centre for the Arts Thematic Residency Scholarship. (2011)

Postdoctoral Fellowship Fonds Québecois de la recherche sur la société et la culture. (2009)

Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowship, Concordia University. (2008)

Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts. (2008)

Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts. (2007)           

Residency Fellowship, Banff Centre for the Arts. (2005)

Studio XX Artist in Residence Grant. (2005)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. (2004)

Residency Fellowship, “Intra-Nation”, Thematic Residency The Banff Centre. (2004)

Full Tuition Fellowship under the Preferred Participant Program, School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. (2003)

Selected publications

“The Petrification of the Image” in Savage Objects: Inhuman Political Alliances. Ed. Godofredo Pereira ( April 2012).

“Trace” in On the Commons; or, Believing-Feeling-Acting Together. Banff Research in Culture. (Forthcoming 2012).

“Yaron Lapid: The New Zero” in Photoworks 16 (Spring/Summer 2011).

“Borders in the City” in Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada.  Eds. Kirsty Robertson and J. Keri Cronin. Wilfrid Laurier Press 2011.

 “The Object that Remains” Monitor 7 Catalogue Toronto: SAVAC, 2011.

 “Rights of Passage” with Mark Godfrey, TJ Demos and Eyal Weizman Tate Etc Issue 19/Summer 2010.

“Universal Catastrophe - Roundtable On Terrorism” with Eyal Weizman, Godofredo Pereira, Paulo Tavares, Tina Di Carlo, Yazan Khalili, in Revista Detritos #4 2010.

*“Virtual and Material Topographies” in PLACE: Location and Belonging in New Media Contexts. Danny Butt, Jon Bywater and Nova Paul (Eds).  Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.

 “Border Control/Border Movements” with Leila Pourtavaf HTMlles 8: Crowd Control 2007.

“Love and Borders” with Viet Ho Le in West Coast LINE 49 Vol 40 No 1 2007.

*“Ali Kazimi’s Continuous Journey and the Virtualities of Racialized Exclusion in Canadian Immigration Policy” with Tamara Vukov in Topia: Canadian Journal for Cultural Studies 17 Spring 2007.

“Notes on the Politics and Potentials of New Media Engagement” with Tamara Vukov. Public: art, culture and ideas 31 2005.

“Unless” in Charlie Don’t Surf: Four Vietnamese American Artists. Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Art (Centre A) Press, 2005.

“Nostalgic Landscapes – Andrew Hunter’s “Giddy-Up! or a Darn Good Hat Act” in FUSE Magazine Vol 27 No 4: Engaging Communities.

“Sailing Ships and Distant Shores: Capitalism, Slavery and the Sea” in Culture and the State: Landscape and Ecology (Volume 1) Ed. James Gifford and Gabrielle Zezoulka-Mailloux. Edmonton: CRC Humanities Studios, 2004.