What makes up the history of a city?

Who makes the city?

Can personal archives re-map a city?

Join exhibiting artist Umber Majeed for a hands-on programme as part of the closing of ‘We Saw an endless cycle’ at Hayy Jameel. This two-day programme of workshops  exploring  the bodies, ideas, and histories that are embedded into city infrastructures will draw from Majeed’s artistic practice and research methodologies in exploring cities through familial archives. Participants will learn various artistic approaches to navigating their ideas of a city. The workshops will culminate with participants working together on a collaborative zine that speaks to their own experience and histories of Jeddah.

Participants will be asked to bring in personal objects and photographs that speak to their experience of the city of Jeddah.

Programme walk-through

Day 1

17 April, 2025

6:00 – 8:00 pm

Hayy Arts First Floor/Project Space, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah

6pm

Introductions

6.30pm

Artist presentation

7pm

Psychogeographic re-mapping exercise of Jeddah

Day 2

18 April, 2025

6:00 -8:45 pm

Hayy Arts First Floor/Project Space, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah

6pm

Presentation on institutional archives with Maria Alem and Sara Hammami

6.30pm

Introduction to zine-making

7pm

Zine-making workshop

8.30pm

Discussion

About The Artist 

Umber Majeed
Umber Majeed (b. New York, NY, 1989) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. She received her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in New York, NY and BFA from Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan. Majeed has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions both locally and globally, including in cities like Jeddah, Taiwan and New York.