Eenasul Fateh

Professor Eenasul Fateh was born in Washington D.C., U.S.A. and grew up in Baghdad, Algiers, Kolkata, Delhi, Lahore, Karachi, Prague, Paris, Geneva and London. He studied economics and international relations at LSE, continuing there 1980-4 as a research fellow at the intersection of global economy and strategic studies. He has integrative, biopsychosocial training across psychological and psychotherapeutic studies: Goldsmiths University, Institute of Psychosynthesis, Tavistock + Portman NHS Foundation Trust, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. In addition, while living in Kolkata, he trained and regularly performed as a classical musician in the Carnatic and Tagore traditions of Indian vocal recital.
 
His practice resides in his lived resistance to power-based categorisation and in his humanistic instinct for dismantling boundaries between disciplines and arenas. 
 
His heterodox bodies of works encompass fugitive cultural practice, community development, trauma-informed processes, strategy consultancy, academia. As a multi-faceted, self-organising artist-researcher he explores the dynamics of human relations across diverse contexts, typically extemporising site-specific installations coupled with ad-hoc time-based actions, largely as collaboration with local peers. He is an experienced community development, youth and trauma practitioner – including working with street gangs, youth clubs and community centres across housing estates in Southwark between 1990-3; leading workshops in prisons; supporting people with complex trauma  – in the community and also for some years as a member of the Trauma Unit of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust where he initiated its acclaimed  peer-led drop-in support group. As a strategy consultant he has advised DEFRA, Forum for the Future, Carbon Descent, EDF Energy, Schlumberger, LVMH, Adidas, Citibank. As an academic he has been teaching strategy, innovation and trauma-informed design methods at LSE, Cranfield, Loughborough University London, UCL, Royal College of Art, University of the Arts, and Tavistock & Portman Clinic.
 
Ex-Chair Black Mime Theatre Company, Entelechy Arts. Board Member/Artist Associate: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, TIHR Creative Digital Futures Lab, Tavistock + Portman Charity, T+P Arts, Organisational Aesthetics Journal, International Reflective Citizens. Inaugural co-chair, Mayor Ken Livingstone's Cultural Strategy Group for London (2000-4), heading the creation of world-first integrated capital city cultural master-plan: from Olympic bid to cultural inclusion.
 
Selected projects as artist-animateur: Jerwood Art Space (1998), British Festival of Visual Theatre (1998), Whitechapel Gallery (1999), ICA (1999), LIFT (1999), V&A (2000), Photographers Gallery (2003), Chisenhale Dance Space (2004), South London Gallery (2007), DEFRA (2007), London Design Festival (2008), South Bank Centre (2009), MARKK Museum Hamburg (2009), Manifesta 8 Murcia + Cartagena (2010), London 2012 Festival/Cultural Olympiad (2012), ARTos Foundation Nicosia (2012), Wilkinson Gallery/Cullinan Richards Studio (2016), FABRIK Hamburg (2019), Wiener Tanz und Kunstbewegung Vienna (2019) etc.
 
Collaborators include: Florence Peake, Abbas Zahedi, Rebecca Swift/Ambient Jam, George Amponsah, Charles Hayward, Barbara Steveni, Tassos Stevens, Maral Pourkazemi, Cardboard Citizens, Gavin Turk, and Mark Setteducati. His work is in the collections of Channel 4, BBC, Photographers Gallery, Design Council, DEFRA, City Hall London, Academy of Fine Arts Kolkata, Wiener Tanz und Kunstbewegung, MARKK, FABRIK.
 
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