Heal, Home, Hmmm x Intervention Architecture at V&A Museum (September 2025)
A string of love x WSWF (coming soon)Riso MelaA sickness is spreading, it’s turning us blueThe Podcast and Publication
Material Matters- New Contemporaries 2024 - 2025
- Manji, Charpai, Daybed x Greenwich & Docklands International Festival
Don’t play with your food - Jalebi Press
- Hospital Rooms x Sandwell CAMHS
- Rhythm with Osman Yousefzada Aftercare with Liverpool Biennial
- Comrades (Midlands) with Outside In x EXPLORERS project
2023 ++ - Courses for Dis-Course(s)
- Quisse of the Komagata Maru
- Khao, peyo, aish karo, but don’t hurt anyone’s heart
- Care Work ft Desi and Disabled
- But what if I gave myself an ounce of the care I show for others?
2022 ++ - DIY Disability
- (Astral Village) slooooowwwww with Sahjan Kooner
- Nangal Pend-ing/ DarkVillage.stl with Sahjan Kooner
- Daybed Charpai Manji Very Modern Stylish
- breathe, spirit and life 呼吸、靈魂與生命 with Katherine Ka Yi Liu
- Searching for Sangat with Artlicks
2019 - 2021 ++
Diva BLEEP!- Rankin x Water Aid
- at Niru Ratnam with Jan Agha
- Joya: arte + ecología / AiR
- As round as the Son with Sharonjit Sutton
Khadi with Bharti Parmar - Cold Comfort and Cultural Identity
- The Encyclopaedia of Cultural Dysphoria
- Nangal Khera
- Coordinates - curating beyond the crisis
- The Anthropology of the Self
- Cooking in Crisis
- Ghar
- The art world Birmingham as seen by Franny
- Panj Din
- Cha Wali
- Everything, Everywhere all at once
- Pittu Garam and other stories
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Khao, peyo, aish karo, but don’t hurt anyone’s heart.
Conjuring a space, for dining, eating, cooking and gathering that manifests in a sort of kitchen, dining room, café, restaurant, chill space Khao, peyo, aish karo, but don’t hurt anyone’s heart, stems from Courses for Dis-course(s), a larger project which includes a series of exhibitions and dining events for British South Asian artists at GLOAM (Sheffield) and Primary (Nottingham).
The projects explore who gets a seat at the table, the politics of orthodoxies, the art space, the home, the kitchen and the gallery by presenting a new body of sculptural, functional and architectural works that employ a variety of British Asian visual languages, culinary traditions and materiality in including langar thalis inlaid with gut health tips, cha stations, posh tea sets, manjis, and tablecloths embroidered with political and theoretical texts.
Roo invites you to join her for open tea and biscuits on Friday 4 August 6–8pm
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Brunch on Saturday 5th August was fully booked.
Images by Stuart Whipps
Find out more here.