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Community Regeneration

Community Regeneration is a research project designed to expand my current practice through collaboration with various communities in Thamesmead. It focuses on researching local histories, collating stories and experiences, amplifying marginalised voices, and providing a platform for disseminating narratives and creating alternative archives. The project aims to document the dynamic relationship between community, architecture, and social transformation in Thamesmead, a rapidly redeveloping area.

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Decolonising the Archives

Decolonising the Archives was a year-long fellowship/residency (2020 – 2021) commission by Decolonising Arts Institute, that responded to archives as an area of focus for decolonial activity. Taking an expanded notion of colonisation, the research followed a path towards the liberation of archival narratives, to unearth stories that had been silenced, yet produced in direct relation to primary materials.

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Image from Chai Kamrai's series of work: White Copyright


Online Specificity:
Live Event Artworks and the Inner-Continuity of the Network

In 2019 I completed a PhD (practice and theory), at Chelsea College of Arts. The research project analysed encounters with artworks that specifically utilised the Internet and the application of the Web as a medium for realisation. It explored the possibility of a new narrative in telecommunications that contributed to discursive, collective and more accessible forms of art practice.

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ANTIKNOW

After completing a one-year artist residency programme at Flat Time House, I was invited to participate in the Antiknow Research Group – led by the visual artist Jakob Jakobsen in 2013. I collaborated with artists, writers, theorists, activists, and therapists, to utilise the term ‘Antiknow’ (initially introduced by John Latham) as a critical strategy for analysing the means and effects of commodification of knowledge and learning in institutions.

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Visual and textual materials © Mohammad Namazi.