Roundtable discussion and presentation, The Value of UK Arts: A Global Opportunity at House of Commons, March 11th, 2025 (in person)
Presentation talk, Tuesday Talks: Shezad Dawood “Leviathan & Hybrid Futures” in partnership with Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts and Lancaster University, January 28th, 2025 (online)
Panel discussion, Symposium, Hybrid Futures, University of Salford, Manchester, UK. May 10th, 2024 (in person)
In conversation, La Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain, March 2024 (in person)
In conversation, The Void, Derry, UK. June 17th, 2023 (in person)
In conversation, “More-than-human collaborations” conversation with Professor Kate Phal (Manchester Metropolitan University), Nobila Bano (Manchester Metropolitan University), Professior Stephen Scott Bottoms (University of Manchester), Dr. Marilene Ribeiro (Manchester Metropolitan University) moderated by Shezad Dawood. Touchstones, Rochdale, June 21st 2023. (in person)
In conversation, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, US, May 2023 (online)
In conversation, Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Lounges, Frieze London; Frieze Masters, London, UK, October 2022 (in-person)
Artist Talk, Karachi Biennial, May 20th 2022 (in-person)
Keynote presentation, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, January 2021 (online)
In conversation, Sotheby’s Institute of Arts, New York, US, December 2021 (online)
Crises, whales and I (online seminar via Zoom), The Homework Club, Sydney, Australia, July 2, 2020
Leviathan broadcast season, a month-long online series of film screenings (Leviathan Cycle, episodes 1–5), podcasts and digital conversations with scientists, curators and historians, including Madeleine van Oppen (University of Melbourne), Zehra Jumabhoy (art critic and historian, Courtauld Institute of Art), Claudia Segura (curator of exhibitions, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (founder and director of TBA21) and Aaron Cezar (director, Delfina Foundation, London), May 21 – June 25, 2020
Dartington LASER talks, Art after the collapse, in conversation with Neal White, Dartington, November 8, 2019
This Is Public Space, discussion (alongside fellow artists Ewan Atkinson and Danielle Dean) of the intersection of technological development and environmental degradation, citizenship and social acceptability, and the relationships between climate change, mental health and migration with digital cultures experts Shumi Bose and Dr Charlotte Frost, UP Projects and Barbican Centre, November 4, 2019
Methods for surviving the future, symposium at Bluecoat, Liverpool, October 2, 2019
Empathy in and out of species, symposium at Bluecoat, Liverpool, September 25, 2019
In conversation with costume designer Alexandra Kharibian, The New Flesh, Lux, London, July 25, 2019
At the Moraine: envisioning the concerns of ice, an interdisciplinary, site-specific workshop on the perception, mediation and representation of ice in the era of climate change, convened by Jeff Diamanti (lecturer at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam) and Amanda Boetzkes (professor of contemporary art history and theory at the University of Guelph, Ontario), Ilulissat, Greenland, June 18 –22, 2019
Climate realism: aesthetics and politics of climate, panel and Leviathan screening, Goethe Institute Amsterdam, May 10, 2019
CPH:DOX, Art, technology and change: speculative world-building, in conversation with evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev (University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen, and associated researcher Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, March 26, 2019
Narrative intelligence, in conversation with Marina Warner and Marc Davis, ArtReview Bar, London, February 6, 2019
Hostile environment: spatial and historical perspectives, Leviathan screening and talks by Gurminder K Bhambra and Lorenzo Pezzani, Elephant West, London, January 23, 2019
Art, ethics, schizophrenia and the marine environment, symposium at Amsterdam Art Weekend, HE.RO and A Tale of a Tub, November 24, 2018 Liquid imaginary, Ex-Art event organised by Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) and the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media (CREAM), London, July 20, 2018
Bergamini, M. “Orgulho ibérico: um passeio madrileño”, from Matteo Bergamini, Umbigo Magazine, La Caixa, March 18th, 2024.
Boobyer, L. “Salisbury Cathedral displays art of refugees’ belongings lost at sea.” From Leigh Boobyer, BBC News, November 28th, 2023.
Clarke, L. “Artist uses objects from the sea to tell stories of refugees and the planet.”, from Lewis Clarke, Wiltshire Live, November 29th, 2023.
Egerton, L. “Shezad Dawood on Fogo Island ‘Between Land & Sea’ from Laura Egerton, Myartguides, January 20th, 2022.
“Leviathan – Salisbury Cathedral” from English Cathedrals, December 13th, 2023.
Evens, J. “Art review: Leviathan by Shezad Dawood (Salisbury Cathedral), from Jonathan Evens, Church Times, January 12th, 2024.
Evens, J. “Finding the human amid the wreckage of migration.” From Jonathan Evens, Seen & Unseen, December 27th, 2023.
“Human Fiction at The Ryder”, Art Viewer, July 22nd, 2024.
Jensen, C. “Interview: I’m staggered this isn’t front-page news’: the provocative climate art that ended up in a cathedral’ from
Charolotte Jensen, The Guardian, November 15th, 2023.
Lloyd, J. “The gothic majesty of Salisbury Cathedral provides a suitable home for Dawood’s apocalyptic cycle.” From Joe Lloyd,
Studio International, December 27th, 2023.
Lux Magazine, “Shezad Dawood: Out of The Blue” from Lux Magazine, October, 12th 2022.
Morton, E. “Artist Shezad Dawood explores migration and climate change at Salisbury Cathedral” from Elise Morton, Euronews, December 18th, 2023.
Otomewo, E. “Shezad Dawood: Leviathan: From the Forest to the Sea” from Ella Otomewo, Corridor 8, July 11th , 2023.
Saraiya K, “Shezad Dawood’s Hybrid Reality” from Kinnari Saraiya in collaborations, Freize London & Frieze Masters, Freize Magazine October 7th, 2022.
Surjid, V. “Shezad Dawood’s ‘Leviathan’ is an Experiential Procession Between the Pews of Salisbury Cathedral” from Vaishna Surjid, Elephant Art, December 8th 2023.
Trigg, D. “Shezad Dawood’s Social and Biblical Beasts”, from David Trigg, Art Review, January 29th, 2024.
Truksa, J. “Salisbury Cathedral art exhibition features plight of refugees.” from Joshua Truksa, Salisbury Journal, November 25th, 2023.
Vázquez, R. “Caixa Forum Sevilla reflects on the human footprint in nature in the exhibition ‘Horizon and limit. Visions of the landscape’.” from Rocío Vázquez, December 3rd, 2024.
Vincent, N. “Art Meets Reality: Exploring Migration and Climate Change at Salisbury Cathedral, UK” from Nicholas Vincent, One Green Planet, December 21st, 2023.
Geraldes Cardoso, Inês, ‘Shezad Dawood’s Leviathan’, Contra, September 2020
Shurvell, Joanne, ‘Tallinn, Estonia: A new cultural hotspot for ambitious contemporary art’, Forbes online, September 8, 2020
Burt, Olivia, ‘Shezad Dawood’s Leviathan’, interview, Frontrunner, April 9, 2020
Cole, Angela, ‘Folkestone Triennial 2020 announces 20 artists, sculptures, murals and its theme, The Plot’, Kent Online, March 9, 2020 (Leviathan listed as part of 2020 Folkestone Triennial, now postponed to 2021)
Walker, Claire, ‘Shezad Dawood’s Leviathan’, Corridor8, October 17, 2019
Davis, Laura, ‘Bluecoat invites you to time travel to the bottom of the ocean’, Liverpool Echo, August 27, 2019
Bhargava, Aaina,‘In Shezad Dawood’s (Virtual) Realities’, COBO Social, August 13, 2019
Cramerotti, Alfredo, ‘Shezad Dawood: The lives of us’, Elephant magazine, January 21, 2019
Wong, Joyce, ‘We Are Each One An Other’, ArtAsiaPacific, issue 111, November/December 2018
Hartless, Emily, ‘Institution of the Leviathan’, CCQ, issue 15, August 9, 2018
Judah, Hettie, ‘I’ve created a monster! Shezad Dawood on his oceanic epic Leviathan’, The Guardian, May 7, 2017
| Creators | Dawood, S. |
|---|---|
| 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 |