# Project Description Identity Making for Diasporic Communities Aalia Ahmadi Summary Final work I am a cultural producer exploring the intersections of collective liberation, belonging, home and identity deconstruction. My practice blends the personal and academic to inform and challenge the structures that shape our environment. I have spent the last year using this voice to explore methods of collective liberation, difference and opacity through event curation, publishing, photography and research. You can find all relevant works on my website! I am a cultural producer exploring the intersections of collective liberation, belonging, home an... College Central Saint Martins Course BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation Graduation year 2025 Featured is the introduction and short extract to my final year dissertation; ' Tides of Self: Understanding Methods of Identity Making for Diasporic Communities through Frameworks of Continuity/Difference '. This work combines autotheory and art criticism to unpack themes of identity construction, diasporic longing and migration. Using frameworks proposed by Stuart Hall, I look to understand and unpack how understandings of self are constructed within diasporic communities. The works of artists Yto Barrada and Zineb Sedira, are used a case studies to analyse Hall concepts of continuity and difference in identity making, shaping the bulk of the work. And interweaved throughout, are explorations into my own identity through recollection and reimagining. To mirror the personal connection between my work and myself, the extracts are overlayed onto my photography-- a medium I use to unpack and explore the very questions I seek to answer within the dissertation, as attempts of reckoning and extending my enquires beyond the page. Final work View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Dissertation extract Share this project Featured is the introduction and short extract to my final year dissertation; 'Tides of Self: Understanding Methods of Identity Making for Diasporic Communities through Frameworks of Continuity/Difference'. This work combines autotheory and art criticism to unpack the... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard