- Rights of Passage” Godfrey, Mark; Demos, T.J.; Weizman, Eyal and Hameed, Ayesha. 2010. Rights of Passage”. Tate Etc, 19,
- Universal Catastrophe - Roundtable On Terrorism Hameed, Ayesha; Weizman, Eyal; Pereira, Godofredo Nobre Enes; Tavares, Paulo; Di Carlo, Tina and Khalili, Yazan. 2010. Universal Catastrophe - Roundtable On Terrorism. Revista Detritos, 4,
- Embodying the Middle Passage Hameed, Ayesha. 2007. Embodying the Middle Passage. Topia, 18, ISSN 1206-0143
- Animating Exclusions: Ali Kazimi’s Continuous Journey and the Virtualities of Racialized Exclusion Hameed, Ayesha. 2007. Animating Exclusions: Ali Kazimi’s Continuous Journey and the Virtualities of Racialized Exclusion. Topia, 17, ISSN 1206-0143
- Love and Borders Hameed, Ayesha and Le, Viet Ho. 2007. Love and Borders. West Coast LINE 49, 40(1),
- Notes on the Politics and Potentials of New Media Engagement Hameed, Ayesha and Vukov, Tamara. 2005. Notes on the Politics and Potentials of New Media Engagement. Public: art, culture and ideas, 31,
- Nostalgic Landscapes – Andrew Hunter’s Giddy-Up! or a Darn Good Hat Act Hameed, Ayesha. 2004. Nostalgic Landscapes – Andrew Hunter’s Giddy-Up! or a Darn Good Hat Act. FUSE, 27(4),
Dr S Ayesha Hameed
Ayesha Hameed explores the legacies of indentureship and slavery through the figures of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Staff details
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Dr. Hameed explores the legacies of indentureship and slavery through the figures of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Her speculative approach combines performance, sound essays, videos, and lectures. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunstinstituut Melly (2022) and Bonniers Konsthall (2022) and group exhibitions at Zeitz MOCAA (2022), Liverpool Biennale, UK (2021), Momenta Biennale (2021), Gothenburg Biennale (2019, 2021), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and Dakar Biennale (2018). She co-directed The Weapon of Theory as a Conference of Birds at the Banff Centre for the Arts (2022) and was an Art Explora Artist in Residence at Cité des Arts, Paris (2022). She is co-editor of Futures and Fictions (Repeater 2017) and co-author of Visual Cultures as Time Travel (Sternberg/MIT 2021). She is a Kone Foundation Research Fellow (2022-6). She has two forthcoming books: the monograph Black Atlantis (Strange Attractor/MIT, 2025) and is lead editor of Radio Brown Atlantis (CARA, 2025).
Teaching and supervision
Supervision Summary:
Politics of the landscape; oceanic studies; sound studies; the relationship between the human and more than human; speculative fiction; experimental, practice based work (film, performance, creative writing); migration; borders; histories and legacies of indenture and slavery on the Indian and Atlantic Oceans; radio and other diy forms of practice
Teaching:
Dr Hameed is on research leave during her Kone Foundation Fellowship.
Prior to this she was Co Programme Leader of the PhD in Visual Cultures and taught the courses below:
BA
Space and Time (co-taught)
Landscape and Power
MA
Ocean as Archive
PhD
Research Seminar (co-taught)
- BA History of Art
- BA Fine Art and History of Art
- MA in Contemporary Art History
- PhD in Visual Cultures
Featured publications
2024:
Hameed, Ayesha; Eleison, Keyna; Moscoso, Manuela; Sengupta, Shuddhabrata and Valinkski, Rachel, eds. 2025. Radio Brown Atlantis. New York: CARA.
Selected Contributors: Ntone Edjabe, Natasha Ginwala, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Yvonne Owuor, Pablo José Ramirez, Shivanee Ramlochan, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Dilip Menon and Francoise Vergès.
2024:
Hameed, Ayesha. 2025. Black Atlantis. London: Strange Attractor Press. [Book] (Forthcoming)
Monograph of performance research project
2021:
Gunkel, Henriette and Hameed, Ayesha. 2021. Visual Cultures as Time Travel. Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN 9783956795381 [Book]
Co-Authored Book
Grants and awards
2023:
Publication Grant, Centre for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), NY
To produce the co-edited book Radio Brown Atlantis
2022:
Kone Foundation Fellowship
To produce the monograph Black Atlantis
2021: Research Fellow in the Arts, Helsinki Collegium in Advanced Studies
2023:
Videonale Scope, Videonale Festival 20
Production Grants for a new curatorial commission
2023:
Videonale Video Digest
Production grant for new video commission
2022:
Kunstinstituut Melly
Production grant for new commission
2022:
Bonniers Konsthall
Production grant for new commission
2022:
Zeitz Mocaa
Production grant for new commission
2021:
Liverpool Biennale
Production grant for new commission
Publications and research outputs
Book
- Black Atlantis Hameed, Ayesha. 2025. Black Atlantis. London: Strange Attractor Press.
- Visual Cultures as Time Travel Gunkel, Henriette and Hameed, Ayesha. 2021. Visual Cultures as Time Travel. Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN 9783956795381
Edited Book
- Radio Brown Atlantis Hameed, Ayesha; Eleison, Keyna; Moscoso, Manuela; Sengupta, Shuddhabrata and Valinkski, Rachel, eds. 2025. Radio Brown Atlantis. New York: Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA). ISBN 9781954939066
- Futures and Fictions Gunkel, Henriette; Hameed, Ayesha and O'Sullivan, Simon D., eds. 2017. Futures and Fictions. London: Repeater. ISBN 9781910924631
Book Section
- A Tidalectic Atlas of the Plantationocene Hameed, Ayesha. 2024. A Tidalectic Atlas of the Plantationocene. In: Justin Barton; Maya B. Kronic and Steve Goodman, eds. Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method. Falmouth: Urbanomic. ISBN 9781915103123
- Two Ships/Time Travel/Bodies Under the Sea Hameed, Ayesha. 2023. Two Ships/Time Travel/Bodies Under the Sea. In: Pandora Syperek and Sarah Wade, eds. Oceans. London: Whitechapel Gallery. ISBN 9780854883042
- (The Art of Living Well and Dying Well) Hameed, Ayesha. 2022. (The Art of Living Well and Dying Well). In: Anselm Franke; Elisa Giuliano; Denise Ryner; Claire Tancons and Zairong Xiang, eds. Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World). Leipzig: Spector Books / Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). ISBN 9783959056946
Article
- Black Atlantis: The Plantationocene Hameed, Ayesha. 2020. Black Atlantis: The Plantationocene. British Art Studies(18), ISSN 2058-5462
- Trace Hameed, Ayesha. 2012. Trace. Reviews in Cultural Theory, 2(3), ISSN 1918-9710
- Yaron Lapid: The New Zero Hameed, Ayesha. 2011. Yaron Lapid: The New Zero. Photoworks, 16,
Conference or Workshop Item
- Keynote Lecture Hameed, Ayesha. 2024. 'Keynote Lecture'. In: Intersectional Materialisms: Diversity in Creative Industries, Methods and Practices. National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland 26 - 28 August 2024.
- Keynote Lecture Henry ‘Box’ Brown Lecture Hameed, Ayesha. 2024. 'Keynote Lecture Henry ‘Box’ Brown Lecture'. In: Henry ‘Box’ Brown Lecture. University of Manchester, United Kingdom 2 May 2024.
- Keynote Lecture “The Plantationocene” Bordering Plants Hameed, Ayesha. 2023. 'Keynote Lecture “The Plantationocene” Bordering Plants'. In: “The Plantationocene” Bordering Plants. Exhibit Galerie, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria 8 November 2023.
Art Object
- A Transatlantic Periodic Table Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. A Transatlantic Periodic Table.
Audio
- "þ thorns þ", with Sara Garzón, Rose Choreographic School, Sadler Wells Hameed, Ayesha. 2024. "þ thorns þ", with Sara Garzón, Rose Choreographic School, Sadler Wells.
- Another World is Podable, Episode 31: The Revolution Continues with Dr. Ayesha Hameed talking about Creating New Futures and her Incredible Project "Black Atlantis Hameed, Ayesha. 2021. Another World is Podable, Episode 31: The Revolution Continues with Dr. Ayesha Hameed talking about Creating New Futures and her Incredible Project "Black Atlantis.
Broadcast
- Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture (BBC Four) Hameed, Ayesha. 2022. Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture (BBC Four).
- Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 Hameed, Ayesha. 2021. Free Thinking BBC Radio 3.
- Radio Brown Atlantis Hameed, Ayesha. 2020. Radio Brown Atlantis.
Digital
- Border Controls/Border Movements Hameed, Ayesha and Pourtavaf, Leila. 2007. Border Controls/Border Movements.
Exhibition Catalogue
- The Object that Remains Hameed, Ayesha. 2011. The Object that Remains.
- Unless Hameed, Ayesha. 2005. Unless.
Film/Video
- In the Shadow of Our Ghosts Hameed, Ayesha and Kane, Hamedine. 2018. In the Shadow of Our Ghosts.
- A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints) - film and performance Hameed, Ayesha. 2017. A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints) - film and performance.
Performance
- Black Atlantis: Retrograde Futurism Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. Black Atlantis: Retrograde Futurism. In: "Black Atlantis: Retrograde Futurism", Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, Germany, 2018-2019.
- Black Atlantis: Bodies and Storms Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. Black Atlantis: Bodies and Storms. In: "Black Atlantis: Bodies and Storms", ICA London, United Kingdom, 2015-2019.
- Black Atlantis: 'The end of eating everything' Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. Black Atlantis: 'The end of eating everything'. In: "Black Atlantis: 'The end of eating everything'", Empire Remains, London, United Kingdom, 2016 - 2018.
Project
- A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints) Hameed, Ayesha. 2016 - 2018 A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints).
- Black Atlantis Hameed, Ayesha. 2014 - 2019 Black Atlantis.
Show/Exhibition
- Heavy Water | of Coordinates, Containers and Containment Hameed, Ayesha. 2024. Heavy Water | of Coordinates, Containers and Containment. In: "Heavy Water | of Coordinates, Containers and Containment", Alexander Levy, Berlin, Germany, 27 January - 30 March 2024.
- “Listen!” Hameed, Ayesha. 2024. “Listen!”. In: "Listen!", Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- Curator “Language without language, Language inspite of language” Video Programme Videonale.Scope Hameed, Ayesha. 2023. Curator “Language without language, Language inspite of language” Video Programme Videonale.Scope. In: "VIDEONALE.scope #10 − Open Your Scope - Counter Narratives", Turistarama Köln, Germany, 30 November 2023.
Other
- Poetry: “Some sad rushes onstage” and “/SET RESET/ACT/SCENE” in The Voice that Remains. Eds Paul O’Neill and Annabelle Antas Hameed, Ayesha. 2023. Poetry: “Some sad rushes onstage” and “/SET RESET/ACT/SCENE” in The Voice that Remains. Eds Paul O’Neill and Annabelle Antas. PUBLICS & Lugemik, Talinn.
- Poetry. “Songs for Petals” in CLIMATE: Our Right to Breathe Hameed, Ayesha. 2022. Poetry. “Songs for Petals” in CLIMATE: Our Right to Breathe. K. Verlag and L’Internationale Online, Berlin.
- Poetry. “Two Ships” in Biennials as Sites of Historical Narration —Thinking through Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, ed Lisa Rosendahl Hameed, Ayesha. 2022. Poetry. “Two Ships” in Biennials as Sites of Historical Narration —Thinking through Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, ed Lisa Rosendahl. Mousse Publishing, Milan.
Research projects
2021-2024:
Brown Atlantis Radio
Radio show commissioned by the Onassis Foundation and broadcast on Stegi Radio (Athens) and Radio Alhara (Bethlehem); Exhibition Commissioned by Bonniers Konsthall; Book commissioned by CARA
2014-2023:
Black Atlantis
Practice research project comprising a monograph, several published book chapters, performances, videos and soundworks exhibited internationally at several biennales and elsewhere
Media engagements
2024:
"þ thorns þ", with Sara Garzón, Rose Choreographic School, Sadler Wells
Podcast
2021:
Sugar. Free Thinking BBC Radio 3
Invited Guest.
2021:
The Uncanny Ocean: A Proposition by Ayesha Hameed HEAD-Geneva
Symposium Convenor
2021:
“Episode 31: The Revolution Continues with Dr. Ayesha Hameed talking about her Incredible Project "Black Atlantis” Another World is Poddable
Podcast hosted by Professor Peter Bloom University of Essex
2020:
Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture (BBC TV )
Appearance in documentary on Afrofuturism for BBC Arena
Conferences and talks
2024:
Henry ‘Box’ Brown Lecture, University of Manchester
Keynote Lecture
2024:
Intersectional Materialisms: Diversity in Creative Industries, Methods and Practices, Maynooth, National University of Ireland
Keynote Lecture
2023:
“The Plantationocene” Bordering Plants, ‘Exhibit Galerie,’ Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Keynote Lecture
2023:
“Of Sea Changes and Other Futurisms” Confluence, CCA Glasgow
Keynote Lecture
2023:
“Time Travelling Devices” (with Henriette Gunkel and Simon O’Sullivan) Time Machines, Goldsmiths University of London
Keynote Lecture
2023:
“The Soil and the Sea of the Plantationocene” (with Henriette Gunkel) British Association for American Studies, Kent, UK
Keynote Lecture
2020:
“Black Atlantis” Nordland National Academy of Art and Film, Norway
Keynote Lecture
2018:
“Retrograde Futurism” Artistic Research Will Eat Itself, Society for Artistic Research, Plymouth
Keynote Lecture