This workshop considers how poetry can hold the pressures of community, war, and speculative futures. Led by Ayesha Hameed, a London-based artist and writer whose work often engages with histories of displacement and the politics of remembering, the session builds on her long-standing interest in how language and sound carry testimony.

Across a focused session, participants will think together about what language can and cannot hold when confronting genocide. Through shared reading and writing, the workshop invites everyone to explore the ways in which language’s own limits can become part of a poetic practice, and to consider how the silences at the limits can become sites of speculation and witness.

Anyone who wants to read and write together and interested in the topic is welcome to join.

Ayesha Hameed is an artist and writer. She has two books forthcoming in Autumn 2026: Black Atlantis (Strange Attractor/MIT Press) and Radio Brown Atlantis (CARA, NY). She’s Professor of Artistic Research at University of the Arts Helsinki and teaches on the MFA at Goldsmiths University of London.

Spots are limited to 15 people

Language: English

Participation fee: 6,000 KZT