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In Conversation Series with Bahar Noorizadeh and The Otolith Collective

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From March - May 2025, The Otolith Collective presents a series of monthly conversations with artist Bahar Noorizadeh. Taking place in-person at FACT and online, this three-part series explores the histories, theories and philosophies that inform Bahar’s work, on display at FACT until 11 May 2025.

Bahar Noorizadeh is an artist, theorist, writer and filmmaker based in London. Her work explores the histories of neoliberalism, speculation, finance, fiction, credit, value, the weird and the unknown. In her solo exhibition at FACT, Free to Choose, she explores the credit banking system as a time-travelling machine through a story set in Hong Kong that spans decades. 

In this three-part series of conversations, Bahar is joined by writer, theorist and filmmaker Kodwo Eshun and filmmaker Anjalika Sagar of The Otolith Collective, alongside invited philosophers, historians and sociologists. The Otolith Collective is a long-standing artist-led organisation supporting intergenerational art practice, research-led projects and process-based forms of development.

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Bahar Noorizadeh, Free to Choose, 2023. Courtesy the artist.

Samo Tomšič In Conversation with Bahar Noorizadeh, Kodwo Eshun + Anjalika Sagar

Saturday 1 March, 15:00 - 17:00

Studio/Lab

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Bahar Noorizadeh, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar are joined by writer and philosopher Samo Tomšič to discuss the social and psychological impacts of contemporary capitalism.

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Bahar Noorizadeh, Free to Choose, 2023. Courtesy the artist.

Melinda Cooper In Conversation with Bahar Noorizadeh, Kodwo Eshun + Anjalika Sagar

Friday 11 April, 11:00 - 12:00 / Free

Online

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Bahar Noorizadeh, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar are joined by Australian sociologist and political theorist Melinda Cooper to discuss biopolitics in relation to new conservative philosophies of power. This conversation will take place online and a link will be sent ahead of the event.

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Bahar Noorizadeh, Free to Choose, 2023. Courtesy the artist.

Quinn Slobodian In Conversation with Bahar Noorizadeh, Kodwo Eshun + Anjalika Sagar

Saturday 3 May, 15:00 - 17:00 / Free

FACT, The Box

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Bahar Noorizadeh, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar are joined by historian and writer Quinn Slobodian to discuss contemporary capitalism, empire and democracy.