Dancing Girl
Utopian Cycles
Roses for Jihadis
(b 1995, raised Karachi) is a first-generation transfemme Pakistani-British Muslim who works primarily as an artist, community organiser, archivist, activist, hawakit (story-teller), arts and science educator, and researcher. Growing up in the largest community of South Asian diaspora in west London as an undocumented immigrant, her artistic practice is engaged in geopoetics, digitisation methods for heritage preservation, indigenous storytelling and non-linear time narratives, state sanctioned myth-making, digital welfare and metadata memorialisation or the transmission of memory. Her work has taken the form of 3-D modelling, CGI, code, image, moving-image, lectures, performance, sound and writing. Through 3-D digitisation and animation of archived beings, she has developed what she calls 'Archival Movement', ultimately a narrative technique which facilitates dignity in heritage items.
Currently she is pursuing a Masters at the University of Cambridge in environmental physics, as an inaugural Alexander Crummel Scholar. She is an Associate at Cambridge Digital Humanities, delivering lectures and workshops. Her other active affiliations include founder of ھ و (Ho) collective, which is working towards building regenerative communal practices between STEM and art; member of Anti-Colonial Archives Working Group; Fellow of Royal Society of Arts; archivist at Misery Party and editor at Khōréō magazine.
Her recent accolades include:
Screenings and Exhibitions: Southbank Center- Unbound Archives | Temporary Artists Anonymous 2024 | LightBeams Under the Bridge | Rio Cinema - What Shall We Build Here Festival | Misery Medicine.
Digital Play: Utopian Cycles in Archiving Practices: Past, Present, and Future Histories | Alison Richard Theatre - Memory Allocation.
Workshops: Accessibility in the CyberSpace | ThinkLab - Sandbach Tinne project | Cambridge Digital Humanities - Online Data School.
Lectures: Centre of Mathematical Sciences - Ethics of AI | Oxford Museum of History - How the British Raj shaped South Asian Science.
Writings: Springer - Herwig Schopper Scientist in a Changing World | ShadesofNoir - 'Preserving Voices Vulnerable to Erasure' | KAJALMAG- Vol. 2.
Music: Threads Radio - Valentines Show | Sound Art Open Music.
Press: i-D - Misery Party | TimeOut | XXYmagazine - Issue 1.