selected work



Edited Book Volumes

Encounters Under the Mulberry Tree 2025

Under the Mulberry Tree 2022




Film

I AM HERE / مەن بار
produced by L’Endroit Films 2024 





Research Affiliations

Remote Ethnography of XUAR 2022-2025

Uyghur Art in Exile 2022-2024



Writing

Decolonizing Uyghur Visual Art 2026

Restorying a Genocide book review 2025

Uyghur Resistance Essay 2025



Exhibitions, Performances, Festivals

Geopoetics: Inheritance online 2025

Under Light of Moon and Sun NYC 2025

Central Asian Short Film Festival Berlin 2025

Constellation of Complicity Bangkok 2025 **

Decolonial Documentation Film Festival Toronto 2025

Geopoetics: Safe and Sound Middelburg 2024

Mediney Miras Tashkent 2023

Everybody is Gone (actor) Berlin 2022

Nikah (actor) 2021



Book Talks, Film Screenings

Harvard book launch 2025

Dump Gallery Almaty film screening 2025

Harvard film screening 2025

Uppsala University film screening 2025

Unga Uigurer film screening 2025

Uyghur Studies Conference film screening 2024

Université Libre de Bruxelles film screening 2024

Harvard book launch 2022

London book launch 2022





Workshops

Unga Uigurer Stockholm 2025

International Secular Uyghur Youth Congress Paris 2024

Tugum Tugum Art Project Istanbul 2024

Master MITRA Methodologies Workshop Brussels 2023

Nadas Art Residency 2022, 2021






Conference Presentations

INALCO Journée des études ouïghoures décoloniales 2025

International Uyghur Studies Conference 2025

Association for Asian American Studies Conference 2025

Uyghur Studies Seminar 2025

Decolonial Documentation Symposium 2025

International Uyghur Studies Conference 2024

Traveling Keywords: Local Perspectives in Inner Asia 2024

London Central Asia Research Network 2024

Back from Adjacent Fields: Remote XUAR Colloquium 2023

MSH Lunchtime Seminar: Uyghur Visual Art 2023

European Society for Central Asian Studies 2023

International Uyghur Studies Conference 2022

Role of Artist-Researcher in the Social Sciences 2022

Artists in Exile Conference: University of Lyon 2022



Media

Radio Free Asia interview 2024

WEghur Stories podcast producer 2024

Chat in the Yurt podcast interview 2023



** see the following media articles about the censorship of the Constellation of Complicity exhibition in Bangkok

New York Times, BBC, Reuters, Art Review