Programme
Zish: Kin-Aesthetic Mother Tongue. A Ritual to Derive Divinity from Displacement
Inspired by the 2001 garage song: ’21 Seconds — So Solid Crew’, KMT translates the mathematical function ‘derivatives of displacement’ from applied physics into images, words and sounds.
Exhibition 7– 16 March 2025 12-5pm
Opening event: Thursday 6 March 6-8pm with live performances, food, poetry and music
In this iterative expanded cinema project, Zish explores non-traditional methods of filmmaking & world building; overlapping pre- and post-production processes, using found images from 2001 and automatic drawing/writing to manifest a film language, vignettes, costumes and objects.
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 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?
This is the seventh exhibition platforming the work of Metroland Cultures’ Peer-to-Peer artists, where the gallery is used to test new work or as a site of further production.
Exhibition 7– 16 March 2025 12-5pm
Opening event: Thursday 6 March 6-8pm with live performances, food, poetry and music
Public Programme:
Saturday 8 March 2-4pm: Drawing from Dream workshop
In this workshop, we will use automatic drawing/writing on the subject of dreams as a way to playfully overcome the fear of the blank canvas.
Saturday 15 March 2-4pm: Dreams of Community workshop
Participants in this group will interpret and discuss a series of texts on community and healing to collectively (re)imagine the future of community in the arts and how we might work together to get there.Spaces for the workshop are limited so please register your interest by emailing: hellozziisshh@gmail.com
Thursday 6 March 5-6pm
Kin-Aesthetic Mix Tape broadcast on K2K radio listen again online at www.ktokradio.com
About Zish
Zish (b. London, 1410 AH) is a Brit-ish artist re-looking at pop culture, music, historic and personal archives for moments that manifest feelings of embodied knowledge.
These moments become a springboard to look beyond simple images by considering their complexity over time, contexts and multi-dimensional properties: mental, still, moving and sonic.
Through ritual and Dreamwork, they embody Isma’ili mythology and resistance to racial capitalism to convene with ancestral spirits and engage in speculation as a mode of artistic creation and self-healing.
The automatic images and writings conjured are translated into expanded cinema; comprising video, sculpture, performance, installation, spoken word and conversation.
Zish completed Shades of Noir’s Teaching Within program in 2022-3 and Open School East’s Artist Associate Program in 2020-1. Select group shows include: New Contemporaries @ South London Gallery (2022), How to Lift Heavy @ Margate Now Festival (2021) Where We Are @ The Margate School (2021), Take Back Control (2019).
Zish is part of Metroland Culture’s 2024 Peer-to-Peer cohort.
Peer-to-Peer artist programme
This exhibition platforms the work of one of Metroland Cultures’ Peer-to-Peer artists. Peer-to-Peer is a studio and associates programme supporting 10 artists, who are either based in or have a connection to Brent. They use the Metroland gallery to test new work, or as a site of further production. Learn more about Peer-to-Peer.
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Metroland Exhibitions Programme 2024/25
A look at the exhibitions coming up in our gallery.