Shezad Dawood: HMS Alice Liddell

Working across the disciplines of painting, film, neon, sculpture, performance, virtual reality, and other digital media, Shezad Dawood asks key questions of narrative, history and embodiment. Using the editing process to explore both meanings and forms, his practice often involves collaboration and knowledge exchange, mapping across multiple audiences and communities. Recent solo exhibitions and commissions include Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai (2021); Visions of Paradise, commission for The White House, Becontree (2021); and many others. Dawood is a Senior Research Fellow in Experimental Media at the University of Westminster. He lives and works in London.

Associate professor of visual culture at Montclair State University Charlotte Kent, PhD, has a particular interest in historical frameworks for art practices, with a research focus on contemporary digital culture and the absurd. She writes for assorted magazines and various academic journals. She is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.