Category: Visual Art

Medact, Design & Strategy

Worked with the Securitisation of Health Group to create logos alongside training content. These were digital drawings made to support Medact’s educational content and stood as pictorial warning around impacts of Prevent Duty. Each logo visualised a part of the appeal, using questions as prompts for conversation about Prevent’s validity.

The British Government’s counter-terrorism strategy Prevent was extended to healthcare in 2015. This means that healthcare bodies are legally obliged to respond to “the ideological challenge of terrorism” under the guise of “safeguarding”. This has caused well evidenced harm to those from Diasporic and Muslim communities, and, thus, Medact’s Securitisation of Health Group have been collectively working to repeal the Prevent duty in the NHS.

Medact has produced some educational guides with the support of these logos. See their ‘Prevent in Healthcare: Mutual Support Guide’ below. Download Link.

Moreover, Medact has also produced an online event series called Alternative Training on Prevent, which worked in conjunction with the #EndPrevent campaign. I championed and supported this by creating fliers for the events and using our Prevent logos.

To learn more about Prevent and what Medact’s Securitisation of Health Group is doing to tackle it, check out their FAQ here.

Lotos Collective, Ltd.  September 2006 to June 2011. Artistic Director
Live Art & Immersive Theatre Company. London, UK

Lotos is a live performance and event company that works towards the creation of hermetic worlds in their scenographic practice, the delivery of a ‘total experience’ by immersing audiences in the themes and aesthetics of a work. Lotos develops projects of time-based performance media, including theatre, live-art, film, video, and spatial design.

Works include the performance-installations, Homebound in a residential site in East London, Prometheus Bound at ActArt4, The Last Ortolan at Nolia’s Gallery; the theatre productions of Tumor Foderato d’Infanzia in Palermo, Drabina Jacuba in Krakow – Poland, El Tiempo Indómito in Santiago de Chile, and Rag and Bone in Salzburg – Austria, as well as the short films Seki Lala and Missing.

• Creative Director and producer of over 20 socially engaged productions – responsibility for also programming and commissioning new work and managing budgets and contracting staff and technical team. Raised the profile of the organisation through establishing an effective communication and audience development strategy and marketing campaign
• Led on developing and implementing a new Learning and Participation Strategy for the Strategies for Teach Arts in Residency (STAR) programme, including a new national focus and delivery plan. Set objectives and milestones and identified internal and external resources needed to successfully deliver on the new strategy.

Trial of the Mariner 

Technical Director 2006 to 2007

Rich Mix is a dynamic arts centre, charity and creative hub in the heart of east London. The programme covers live music, spoken word, theatre, dance, talks and visual art in performance and exhibition spaces as well as a multi-screen cinema showcasing independent films and blockbusters. The creative engagement programmes aim to develop and facilitate the creative potential of young people, families, children and wide-ranging communities from across East London. During this period, Rich Mix underwent a significant period of change that saw the launch of a new building and business plan. I administered the technical development and needs as well as managing the touring exhibition Brick Lane that represented work created by South Asian artists from the area. This was showcased at Lille 3000 Festival of the Arts and helped establish the organisation as a centre of excellence for local arts and culture.

• Managed and administered the technical development and needs of a large-scale arts venue based in East London. 
• Production Managed the touring exhibition Brick Lane, representing work created by South Asian artists from London’s East End at Lille 3000 the festival of the arts as part of the Lille, France city of culture. 
• Led and supported the organisation through a significant change programme including the launch of a new building and shaping a new business plan to drive income generation from the building and establish ourselves as a centre of excellence for local arts and culture in the East End of London.

 

Exhibition Design and Install
Brick Lane Exhibition
Lille 3000, France
European City of Culture 2006

A Brick Lane exhibition that celebrated Asian life in London’s East end.

For the Lille3000 Festival, London’s Rich Mix Cultural Centre commissioned Lotos Collective to design and produce a visual arts exhibit entitled Brick Lane. It was created on site at the former warehouse Maison Folie in Lille, France as part of the second Lille3000 Biennale – Bombaysers de Lille. 

Representing a selection of South Asian artists, the exhibit was the keystone of one of Europe’s largest arts festivals and was visited by over 33,000 people.

Following its success abroad, Lotos Collective redesigned the exhibition for view at Rich Mix’s London base in the East End.

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The Secret Garden,
Lower East Side, New York City

Between 2001 to 2005, ALAS designed and developed a community green and cultural space through community collaboration in an abandoned lot in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, supported by the NYC Parks Department.

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