PORTFOLIO
THESE HALLOWED GROUNDS
WIP
considers coffee as a spiritual, colonial and
revolutionary technology.
Ritual in Progress
2025
Performance at White Noise 50, Corsica Studios
This 12 minute sound work explored the theme of club ecologies by imagining Corsica Studios as a sound generating/expanding/modifying organism. By sampling sounds from different parts of the club ecology (the space, the speakers and the people), relational systems were connected and synthesised through techno rhythms, ambient soundscape and layered spoken word that evokes the interconnected nature of bodies and sound in the club.
This 12 minute sound work explored the theme of club ecologies by imagining Corsica Studios as a sound generating/expanding/modifying organism. By sampling sounds from different parts of the club ecology (the space, the speakers and the people), relational systems were connected and synthesised through techno rhythms, ambient soundscape and layered spoken word that evokes the interconnected nature of bodies and sound in the club.
CELEBRATION IS A FORM OF HEALING
2025
A drink and poem to welcome to visitors to the exhibition,
Kin-Aesthetic Mother Tongue, inspired by formative memories
of community congregations, including Iftar
(the breaking of fast during Ramadan).
Ceremonial coconut sharbat (vegan):
coconut, basil seeds, pistachio, almond, rose water, blue food colouring
KIN-AESTHETIC MOTHER TONGUE
2025
Inspired by the classic garage song:‘21 Seconds — So Solid Crew’, KMT
translates the mathematical function ‘derivatives of displacement from
applied physics into images, words and sounds.
Touching on the themes of traditional narratives, societal expectations, as well as the alienation and assimilation of Isma’ili diaspora (a Shia sect of Islam) at a time of designed misinformation, this expanded cinema project reflects on a complex history of South Asian migration and complicity within the colonial project as ‘an imported middle class’ in East Africa, to ask the question: what can one derive from displacement?
Touching on the themes of traditional narratives, societal expectations, as well as the alienation and assimilation of Isma’ili diaspora (a Shia sect of Islam) at a time of designed misinformation, this expanded cinema project reflects on a complex history of South Asian migration and complicity within the colonial project as ‘an imported middle class’ in East Africa, to ask the question: what can one derive from displacement?
- Installation View
- Metroland Cultures 2025 -
- Outside -
Celebration is a Form of Healing, 2025
Open Sesame, 2025
- Installation View
- Metroland Cultures 2025 -
- Pre-Gallery -
- Metroland Cultures 2025 -
- Pre-Gallery -
Isma’ili Matrix, 2024-25
If Only You Could See What I See, 2024
Can't Hold We Down, 2021
Just Checking In, Wil Circle Back Later, 2025
Try Not to Abandon Your Self, 2024
- Installation View
- Metroland Cultures 2025 -
- Main Gallery -
- Metroland Cultures 2025 -
- Main Gallery -
Sins of Colonial Fathers, 2025
KMT Expanded View
KMT Expanded View
I’m Beginning to See a Pattern here, 2025
This work makes visible how Zish ritualises film-making
and world building through repetition and overlapping
of pre- and post-production processes.
Found images from 2001 and automatic drawing/writing
formulate a film language: an incantation, storyboard,
vignettes, ritual garments, objects and actions.
and world building through repetition and overlapping
of pre- and post-production processes.
Found images from 2001 and automatic drawing/writing
formulate a film language: an incantation, storyboard,
vignettes, ritual garments, objects and actions.
PeppairForce_1.02, 2024
100 to 0 or Transitionary Trials
or Trust The Process, 2025
Sertraline Dreams, 2025
One Step At A Time, 2025
One Step At A Time (close), 2025
One Step At A Time (angle), 2025
One Step At A Time (detail), 2025
One Step At A Time (detail), 2025
KMT_25_1124a (still), 2025
KMT_25_1124a (video), 2025
Kanga Mother Tongue, 2021
ADAM & STEVE
2021
HWK
2020
Víðsýni
2019
Five — Nine
2019
Illegal Tender
2019
Raised Lens
2018
Urn
2017
Exhibitions/Performances/Workshops
2026
Performance — Sonic Witnessing, Foreshadowing Annual — Greenpeace, UK
Workshop — Avatars of Cruelty (w/ Mollie Tilley) — LUX, London
2025
Workshop — Healing Through Poetry — Healing Justice London, Online
Performance — I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On by Alfredo Jaar — Brent Biennial, Metroland Cultures
Performance — Scratch Lab Showcase — Stanley Arts, London
Performance — All that Burns, All that Glows, by Youngsook Choi — Brent Biennial, Wembley Sailing Club
Performance — Ritual in Progress, White Noise 50 — Corsica Studios, London
Performance — The Life of Now, Curate Brent — Willesden Gallery, London
Discussion — Can art heal us? — Metroland Cultures, London
Workshop — Drawing from Dreams — Metroland Cultures, London
Performance — Kin-Aesthetic Mother Tongue — Metroland Cultures, London
Solo Show — Kin-Aesthetic Mother Tongue — Metroland Cultures, London
2024
Performance — Sonic Research, SAOM #19 — Avalon Cafe, London
Performance — Soapbox Sermon, White Noise 48 — St John on Bethnal Green, London
Performance — Sonic Research, Open Studios — Metroland Cultures, London
2022
Group Show — New Contemporaries — South London Gallery, London
Group Show — New Contemporaries — Ferens + Humber Street Gallery, Hull
2021
Group Show — How to Lift Heavy — Nayland Rock, Margate Now Festival
2020
Group Show — Show Me — The Margate School, Margate
Group Show — Complex States — complexstates.art
2019
Group Show — A Xerox Show — Hart Club, London
Group Show — Glitches & Defects — Millepiani, Rome
Group Show — Take Back Control — The Crypt Gallery, London
Performance — The Sponge, by Panicattack Duo — The Change Room, London
2018
Group Show — Secret 7” — The Jetty, London
Publications/Media
2025
Publication — In Practice: Healing through Poetry — Short Stuff
Publication — In Practice: White Walls — Short Stuff
Publication — In Practice: Healing through Poetry — Healing Justice London
Publication — In Practice: White Walls — Healing Justice London
2021
Publication — How to Lift Heavy — Open School East
2020
Publication — So It Goes — Open School East
2019
Debate — Does God exist? — BBC Asian Network Radio
2018
Interview — Knife crime, Stop and Search & Human Rights — BBC Asian Network Radio
2017
Interview — Race, Relationships and Dating Apps — BBC Asian Network Radio
Interview — Urn and the value of higher education — BBC Radio Leeds
Residencies/Grants
2025
Residency — Healing Justice LDN — In Practice: Writers Room & Responding Artist
Residency — Apples & Snakes SCRATCH LAB — Poetry Development Program
Residency — Somerset House (Shortlist) — Assembly Music & Sound Residency
2024
Grant — A-N Freelands Foundation — Artists’ Bursary
Residency — Metroland Cultures — Peer-2-Peer Program
2022
Grant — Arts Council: Develop Your Creative Practice — KMT DEV
2020
Residency — Open School East — Associates Program
2026
Performance — Sonic Witnessing, Foreshadowing Annual — Greenpeace, UK
Workshop — Avatars of Cruelty (w/ Mollie Tilley) — LUX, London
2025
Workshop — Healing Through Poetry — Healing Justice London, Online
Performance — I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On by Alfredo Jaar — Brent Biennial, Metroland Cultures
Performance — Scratch Lab Showcase — Stanley Arts, London
Performance — All that Burns, All that Glows, by Youngsook Choi — Brent Biennial, Wembley Sailing Club
Performance — Ritual in Progress, White Noise 50 — Corsica Studios, London
Performance — The Life of Now, Curate Brent — Willesden Gallery, London
Discussion — Can art heal us? — Metroland Cultures, London
Workshop — Drawing from Dreams — Metroland Cultures, London
Performance — Kin-Aesthetic Mother Tongue — Metroland Cultures, London
Solo Show — Kin-Aesthetic Mother Tongue — Metroland Cultures, London
2024
Performance — Sonic Research, SAOM #19 — Avalon Cafe, London
Performance — Soapbox Sermon, White Noise 48 — St John on Bethnal Green, London
Performance — Sonic Research, Open Studios — Metroland Cultures, London
2022
Group Show — New Contemporaries — South London Gallery, London
Group Show — New Contemporaries — Ferens + Humber Street Gallery, Hull
2021
Group Show — How to Lift Heavy — Nayland Rock, Margate Now Festival
2020
Group Show — Show Me — The Margate School, Margate
Group Show — Complex States — complexstates.art
2019
Group Show — A Xerox Show — Hart Club, London
Group Show — Glitches & Defects — Millepiani, Rome
Group Show — Take Back Control — The Crypt Gallery, London
Performance — The Sponge, by Panicattack Duo — The Change Room, London
2018
Group Show — Secret 7” — The Jetty, London
Publications/Media
2025
Publication — In Practice: Healing through Poetry — Short Stuff
Publication — In Practice: White Walls — Short Stuff
Publication — In Practice: Healing through Poetry — Healing Justice London
Publication — In Practice: White Walls — Healing Justice London
2021
Publication — How to Lift Heavy — Open School East
2020
Publication — So It Goes — Open School East
2019
Debate — Does God exist? — BBC Asian Network Radio
2018
Interview — Knife crime, Stop and Search & Human Rights — BBC Asian Network Radio
2017
Interview — Race, Relationships and Dating Apps — BBC Asian Network Radio
Interview — Urn and the value of higher education — BBC Radio Leeds
Residencies/Grants
2025
Residency — Healing Justice LDN — In Practice: Writers Room & Responding Artist
Residency — Apples & Snakes SCRATCH LAB — Poetry Development Program
Residency — Somerset House (Shortlist) — Assembly Music & Sound Residency
2024
Grant — A-N Freelands Foundation — Artists’ Bursary
Residency — Metroland Cultures — Peer-2-Peer Program
2022
Grant — Arts Council: Develop Your Creative Practice — KMT DEV
2020
Residency — Open School East — Associates Program