Open Call: Tosin Adegoke, Amina Khayyam, Husam Ibrahim – The Body at Sea
The Body at Sea is a peer-to-peer project with artists Tosin Adegoke, Amina Khayyam, Husam Ibrahim, as part of LADA‘s Do It Together 2026, delivered in collaboration with Future Ritual.
We’re proud to be one of the 19 partners selected as part of the DIT programme; a peer-to-peer programme, designed by different artists. We’re working with lead artists Tosin Adegoke, Amina Khayyam, Husam Ibrahim to run a two-day experimental laboratory for six artists working across movement, sound, somatics and spiritual experimentation.
This project investigates whether the body can serve as a site to engage with archival absences – specifically with the erased histories of South Asian maritime labourers, historically referred to as lascars. The lab will embody the archive with rhythmic repetition, collective listening and performance as modes of inquiry to sit with historical residue and archival absence. As migrant narratives continue to be flattened into data and crisis rhetoric, this lab experiments with a counter-methodology.
Tosin, Amina and Husam are seeking six artists/practitioners who demonstrate a clear interest in and potential to benefit from the lab. No prior experience in professional movement, dance, or sound is required.
Activities will take place in person Saturday 5 – Sunday 6 September 2026 at Toynbee Studios. Timings to be confirmed.
Find out more about DIT and how to apply. Applications are open now and close on Monday 23 February 2026.
About the Artists
Tosin Adegoke (he/him) is a London-born Nigerian artist working across workshops, sculpture and film. His practice engages archives and material memory, tracing histories of migration, labour, and Global Majority cultures through documentary work about seafarers.
Amina Khayyam (she/her) is Artistic Director of AKDC whose most recent work includes Ghost Ships – a co-production with Icon Theatre and ZooNation. Amina choreographed the section that explored colonial violence through trance and collective movement.
Husam Ibrahim (he/him) is a South Asian documentary filmmaker whose work bridges journalism, ritual and experimental art. Drawing on his background with refugee communities and family history of labour migration to Dubai, he explores belonging and displacement.
GOKE Studio, run by Husam Ibrahim and Tosin Adegoke, facilitated community workshops translating archival research into site-specific experiences, including a guided walking tour and virtual soundscape on lascar histories.