Hannah Robathan

Is Bimboism a performance, as per Judith Butler’s gender theory, and if so, who is the performance for? Is Bimboism a performance, as per Judith Butler’s gender theory, and if so, who is the performance for?

When Nigerian artist and photographer Aisha Seriki was a young child, she encountered the sharp end of the UK’s border system as she and her family moved from South East Asia to eventually reside in London. Her experience at The Home Office, a police state system which continues to impact her life through denying her father entry to the UK, has necessarily shaped her perception of the world.

I think the context in which I first came across Saoud Khalaf’s filmmaking was significant. It was during Southbank Centre’s Refugee Week takeover; I’d just hosted a panel on the power of healing through sport following a screening of shado’s Comfort Angels documentary, which centres on a women’s football team in Liverpool made by and for refugee women and people seeking asylum.