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MAY 28TH, 2026 || 10:00-16:00
KCL - STRAND CAMPUS
NASH LECTURE THEATRE (KIN 205) and COUNCIL ROOM (KIN 214)


 Sohalia Baluch

Sohaila Baluch is an transdisciplinary artist and writer working across moving image, performance, installation and text. She is an LAHP/AHRC-funded doctoral researcher at the Royal College of Art. Rooted in embodied and material practices, her work explores inheritance, migration and institutional power through repetition, labour and transformation, often centred on the lived experiences of South Asian women in Britain and broader diasporic histories. Recent exhibitions, screenings and performances have been presented at HAPAX Living Room; Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House; Beaconsfield Gallery, Bishopsgate Institute and the Jarman Lab / Birkbeck Cinema. Her project Duplicates Only, developed with Glasgow Women's Library for GI 2026, foregrounds the unseen labour of care, maintenance and access through which cultural memory is held, shared and sustained.Her writing includes ‘Counter-Archives: Creating Spaces for Other Ways of Knowing’ in Re-Evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art ed. Katy Deepwell (Vernon Press, 2026) and ‘Jute/Jhooth’ in Home: Provoking Conversations on Place and Belonging eds. Kirsten Adkins and Jean Boyd (Routledge, 2026).

IG: @sohaila.baluch

Ree Bradley

works across experimental documentary, social practice, and performance. He has an MA from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University and in 2023 attended Skowhegan School, ME, USA. He has undertaken residencies and exhibitions internationally with Gasworks, London; ICA, London; The Room Projects, Paris and LUX, London; Halle 14, Centre for Contemporary Art, Leipzig; Fondazione Prada, Venice; Fine Arts Work Center, MA, USA (with Maia Chao); Jerwood Arts, London; Freelands Foundation, London, among many others.

Tülin Dağ

I am a London-based artist filmmaker from Türkiye, working with experimental moving image, archival materials, and oral histories. Drawing on my experience as a Kurdish political prisoner for nine and a half years, my work explores memory, resistance, and collective survival through embodied and personal narratives.
My practice is rooted in the belief that memory is a form of resistance. I approach filmmaking as a process rather than a fixed outcome, allowing the material to guide the work as it unfolds. Moving between personal testimony and collective history, I focus on stories that are often silenced, fragmented, or erased within dominant narratives. Through repetition, fragments, and oral histories, I seek to create space for what remains unspoken and unseen, holding past and present in constant dialogue.

IG:
@dagtulin
John Harrigan
is an award-winning artist, writer, filmmaker and researcher working across film, text and performance. His work explores ritual, liminality, authorship and the sacred, asking how othered artists create meaning and confront structures of power through embodied creative practice. Founder of immersive theatre company FoolishPeople, his practice spans site-responsive performance, participatory theatre, independent feature filmmaking and hybrid moving-image work. Harrigan is a BAFTA Connect member and is currently undertaking a PhD at the Royal College of Art, where his research explores ritual, artistic transformation and authorship through creative practice.

www.harrigan.co
Rotem Linial
    is an artist and educator currently based in London, UK.
Linial works across media engaging with individuals and groups to explore emotive and political stakes of non-linear storytelling; the poetics and psychology of perception; and the history of reproducibility. Her work, even at its most abstract, often begins with a documentary impulse and uses oral history, archival research and other documentary practices as the basis for sculptural, video, and print projects.
Linial is a the founder and director of Cinema Balash.

https://rotemlinial.cargo.site/
Mai Omer
is a multi-media artist and researcher based in London. 

My main passions are arts, politics and education.

For me these fields are interconnected, as they offer not only ways to understand the world but also means to affect it.

I think of art as a powerful tool. One that is used not only to re-think aesthetic languages but also to assemble communities, to build infrastructures, to gather knowledge and to imagine and create socio-political alternatives, while having a sense of fulfillment and fun.

https://www.maiomer.com/
Alinta Sara
Alinta Sara is an independent curator, researcher, and PhD candidate at King’s College London, as well as a lecturer in French language and African Art History at Imperial College London. She is also the co-founder of Bokantaj, an initiative dedicated to fostering cultural exchange through a “South–South” perspective. Her curatorial practice combines oral histories and visual arts to create thoughtful, accessible, and audience-centred experiences that connect heritage, memory, and contemporary cultural debates. Alinta has worked as a workshop producer with institutions including the October Gallery and Tate Modern and has developed projects such as Divinations of Worlds to Come at Agency Gallery, Our Journey, Our Story at Black Cultural Archives, and The Colour of Pain at CLCC, Imperial College London. She is currently consultant curator for the Sickle Cell Society exhibition at the London Royal Hospital, building on her research into the history and memory of sickle cell disease in the UK, including Donald Rodney-related work for Art360’s Artist Legacies in Museums programme in 2023. Supported by an Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Grant in 2024, her current research examines the invisibility of Black bodies in Moroccan art and the legacies shaping visual narratives across historical, institutional, and contemporary contexts.

IG: @alintasara 
@ bokantaj_
Oleksandr Teliuk
is a film scholar, archivist, curator, and currently a postgraduate researcher at Queen Mary University of London. As a film archivist, he worked at the Dovzhenko Centre, the Ukrainian state film archive. As curator, he programmed several retrospectives and exhibitions of experimental, archival and Ukrainian cinema, in particular, 'The River Wailed Like a Wounded Beast' (2023–24, Kyiv, Berlin, Tbilisi), and 'Ukrainian Cinema: Poetry and Resistance' (2025, Berkeley). As an artist, as a member of ruїns collective, he took part in a number of international film festivals and exhibitions.

https://www.ruins.today/elias
Lennie Varvarides
 is giddy about all things neurodivergence. They are a fully funded LAHP PhD candidate at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where they are investigating the ‘Neurodivergent Aesthetic’ and have a special interest in writing for performance. 

They are the Founder of DYSPLA CIC, a digital arts organisation specializing in short form political poetics, as well as the director of MSFT Management Ltd, a London based talent agency, were they take a leadership role developing neurodivergent creatives. 

In 2018 they produced the DYSPLA International Moving Image Festival, funded by ACE and have been obsessed by neurodivergence as a form of materiality ever since.