A multipart project comprising 10 films, a virtual-reality trilogy, paintings, sculptures and a public programme involving cross-disciplinary researchers and the general public
Film-maker, writer, director and researcher
FILM SCREENING VENUES
Forecast Türkiye: Memory of Water / Suyun Belleği, Izmir, 2025; San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 2025; Skabmagovat Festival, Inar, 2024; University of Salford Art Collection, Salford, 2024; IAIA MOCNA, Santa Fe, 2024; Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, 2023; Bury Art Museum, Bury, 2023; Parallax Art Center, Portland, 2023; NOD Gallery, Prague, 2023; Kansas City Art Institute Gallery, Missouri, 2023; Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, 2022; Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, 2022; The Cube Project Space, Taipei, 2022; Pera Museum, Istanbul, 2021; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, 2021; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, 2021; Leviathan Broadcast Season in collaboration with Art Review, Modern Forms, Robert Institute of Art and The RYDER Projects (online), 2020; Kai Art Center, Tallinn, 2020; The RYDER Projects, Madrid, 2020; MOCA Toronto, Toronto, 2019; Bluecoat, Liverpool, 2019; Kunstverein München, Munich, 2019; CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, 2019; Elephant West x Itinerant Works, London, 2019; ArtReview Bar, London, 2019; The Atlantic Project, Plymouth, 2018; Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, 2018; MOSTYN, Llandudno, 2018; Screen City Biennial, Stavanger, 2017; University of Salford, Manchester, 2017; Timothy Taylor, London, 2017; Venice Biennale, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, 2017
FILMS COMMISSIONED BY
Ambiente E Arte; A Tale of a Tub; Bluecoat; CCA Tel Aviv; Fondazione Querini Stampalia; Fortuny Venezia; CNR-ISMAR, Venice; Labanof, University of Milan; La Panacée, Montpellier; Marine Institute, University of Plymouth; MOCA, Toronto; Mostyn, Llandudno; Screen City Biennial, Stavanger; The Atlantic Project, Plymouth; Toronto Biennial; Outset; Mubi streaming platform; Arts Council England; Contemporary Art Society; CREAM, University of Westminster; University of Salford Art Collection; Leviathan – Human and Marine Ecology; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool; Touchstones Rochdale
| Creators | Dawood, S. |
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| Description | Emerging from Dawood’s research-led film-making methodology, this interdisciplinary project involves collaboration and dialogue with scientists, anthropologists, philosophers, lawyers, activists, futurists, and trauma specialists. At all Following its inaugural presentation in Venice in May 2017 to coincide with the 57th Art Biennale, Dawood’s Leviathan has facilitated and produced over 30 talks and events alongside exhibitions aimed at encouraging cross-disciplinary dialogue. Distinguished speakers have for example included the theorist Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi in conversation with leading oceanographer Sandro Carniel; Cristina Cattaneo director of the LABANOF at the University of Milan, whose work operates at the frontline of the refugee crisis; and pioneering evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev. To date, eight of the ten films in the Leviathan Cycle have been produced. These works have been presented at film festivals including CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark), Oberhausen (Oberhausen, Germany), and Kino der Kunst (Munich, Germany), Skabmagovat Festival (Inar, Finland) and at one-off screenings and special events with partners including Elephant Magazine and the Goethe-Institute. |
| Portfolio items | Leviathan |
| Leviathan | |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | University of Westminster |