aisha tida

Aftercare Space Art Archive
Participatory Installation +
Community Art Archive
2025

Aftercare Space was a participatory art installation that functioned as a transitory space for creative meditation and conversation after visitors exited the intense sensory experience of IN/OUT/THRU︎︎︎.

All the items in this communal crafting space were carefully selected to facilitate playful and tactile exploration of ideas and materials featured in the show.

The Aftercare Space Art Archive features the drawings, poetic musings, scribbles, and sculptures thoughtfully created by the visitors of the PUSH/PULL Exhibition Project.

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exhibition, houston, installation, participatory, archive, amok


︎︎︎Click to Explore the Collection: PUSH/PULL Aftercare Space Art Archive

PUSH/PULL
Exhibition Project

May 30 - June 28, 2025
Box13 ArtSpace

PUSH/PULL is a transdisciplinary exhibition project featuring new works by aisha tida and Leila Mnekbi in the Upstairs BOX at Box13 ArtSpace, developed with the support of ARCOS Dance and funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Through experiential sculptural and sound works and audience collaboration, PUSH/PULL invites visitors to experiment with notions of agency and collectivity while questioning the patterns, loops, and illusions we wish to escape.

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amok, curatorial, exhibition, houston, installation, pattern, participatory, performance, dance, collab, soft sculpture, event


︎︎︎See: PUSH/PULL (Exhibition Project)

︎︎︎ARCOS Dance

A collection of recipe card sets filled out by participants of the DD project.

Each set contains three unique cards  that guide storytelling chefs through the imaginative process of dreaming up their own diaspora dumpling. 


Please ︎ contact the artist to contribute your story-based recipe to the archive!

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dd, participatory, social practice, food, diaspora, archive

︎︎︎Click to Explore: Diaspora Dumpling Recipe Archive

This installation is the first adaptation of the Diaspora Dumplings project for a gallery setting. Titled Diaspora Dumpling Potluck 001 (Tableau + Artifacts), the work presents the project in two ways: first, it gives a glimpse of the pilot Diaspora Dumpling Potluck + Archiving Party (held in September 2024), and second, invites exhibition visitors to co-author the DD project by contributing their own set of story-based recipes to the archive.

Exhibited in EXperimental at Box13 ArtSpace January - Februrary 2025.

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dd, installation, exhibition, food, sculpture, diaspora, participatory, social practice, houston

︎︎︎Click to Explore: Diaspora Dumpling Recipe Archive

At the Diaspora Dumpling Potluck + Archiving Party, eight participants shared the edible results of their exploration of the richness of food as medium.

Each guest chef was challenged to invent, prepare, and share their very own diaspora dumpling, defined as “an inventive, cross-cultural food item made to be eaten in multiples—necessarily composed of a mixed filling that is wrapped in dough before being cooked. An edible medium for sharing who you are and where you come from.”

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dd, food, sculpture, diaspora, participatory, social practice, houston, event