2026-These forthcoming projects, listed below, some of which are books and some are artworks, continue my project of fuzzy ontology, including art as a fuzzy ontology, the role of knowledge in the age of AI and impersonal enunciation, quasi-materialism, the return of the ancient idea of mimesis, what I call noomimesis. Key notions are contingency, with attention to technics, which capitulates contingencies, questions of exteriorization and generic modes of knowledge. This generic mode produces ‘sense fields’ that give rise to cross-circulation of signs, defying any origin whatsoever. As ever, my philosophical essays and artworks are directed towards the critique of essentialism. I also look at the works of other philosophers, scientists, and artists, such as F.W.J. Schelling, Giles Deleuze, Bernard Stiegler, Theodor W. Adorno, , Francois Laruelle, Quentin Meillassoux, JF Lyotard, Lutfi A. Zadeh, Stuart Hall, Vladimir Vernadsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roman Opalka, and Jean-Luc Godard, among others.
2026-Unreasonable Silence of the Universe: Fuzzy Ontology ( In this book, I describe my theory of fuzzy ontology and explain it through the realm of art and politics.)
2026-Realism (Without) the Real: Imitation of Thought (Based on my research on fuzzy ontology of quasimaterialism or what I call noomimesis, this book focuses on the question of thought as a response to physical processes.)
2026-The Question of Art in the Age of Impersonal Enunciation (This book contains ideas derived from my thinking about the role of art in the age of AI, as well as impersonal enunciations that accompany this age. Compared to many critics who criticise this age, I am, in fact, more optimistic, although there are many problems as well. Privileged AI as a supreme technology in the mainstream media is closely connected to these problems, which I also criticise as an essentialist and often arrogant approach. Yet, I believe that the more technologies are used as artworks, the more evident prejudices about art’s originality become. That is why using AI for educated people only helps to increase knowledge, whereas for people who are poorly educated in terms of knowledge, it is very dangerous. This evidence is the liberation of art from being unique or original and recognising artworks as work and an engagement. Continue my philosophical research into fuzzy ontology, which I also call quasimaterialism and ‘noomimesis’.)
2026-Cinema and The Shape of Time ( Forthcoming from AsterFest, this book addresses cinema as an art of shaping time.)
2026-In Search of the Lost Time (A collection of my art projects, including stills from my films, installations, paintings, and works on paper published as a book-album.)
2026-Down to Earth (An exhibition, consisting of essay-installations, paintings and works on paper.)
2024-25-Globalisation Before Modernism :
Part 1: Towards Non-Essentialism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9zwRlv-tw
Part 2: Love/Hate: Classification as a Mode of Production https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLxvviMREG
Part 3: Technics and Images https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R7XVXLx1Gc
2024-Noomimesis: A Political Economy of the Meaningless Sign, chapter in Posthuman Mimesis, Brill https://brill.com/display/title/63101
2024-Headlines as Hieroglyphic Scripts, (book) Asterfest, Strumica, N. Macedonia https://www.asterfest.com/
2024-The Changing Shape of Time: The Crisis of Exteriorization and the Chronotope, chapter in Avant-Garde and Liberation: Contemporary Art and Decolonial Modernism, MUMOK, Vienna, and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln 2024 https://www.mumok.at/en/publications/avant-garde-and-liberation-zeitgenoessische-kunst-und-dekoloniale-moderne
2023- Zeit im Akkusativ, chapter in Isaac Julien: Playtime, Palace Populaire/Kerber Art
2023- Time in the Accusative Case, chapter in Isaac Julien: 2023-Playtime, Palace Populaire/ Kerber Art https://neuegestaltung.de/clients/isaac-julien-playtime
2022- Russification project, MAM Documents 004, chapter in Transnational: From Alexandria to Tokyo: Art, Colonialism and Entangled Histories, Tate Modern and Mori Art Museum
2021- Is a ‘Post’ in ‘Post-human’ the Same as a ‘Trans’ in ‘Trans-human’? talk in the conference Posthuman Mimesis: Embodiment, Affect, Contagion, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/english-literature/events/conference-posthuman-mimesis-embodiment-affect-contagion
2021- Contingency of cultures, cultures of contingency: Cultural Studies with a Philosophical Attitude, chapter in Matthias Wieser / Elena Pilipets (eds.) Medienkultur als kritische Gesellschaft analyse, Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne, Germany https://www.halem-verlag.de/produkt/medienkultur-als-kritische-gesellschaftsanalyse/
2020-Russification project, talk in symposium From Alexandria to Tokyo: Art, Colonialism and Entangled Histories, Mori Art Museum and Tate Modern in partnership with Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University https://www.tate.org.uk/research/research-centres/hyundai-tate-research-centre-transnational/event-report-alexandria-tokyo
2020-Unusual phrases, (online exhibition), Evolving Arts, Dubai, UAE
2020-The Time of the Image: A Philosophical Exploration of the Image in the Work of Bernard Stiegler, (book), Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne, Germany https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Time_of_the_Image/JSvdDwAAQBAJ?hl=en
2019 – Trans-imitation: translating imitation and derushage as a new image of thought, talk in The Mimetic Condition: A Transdisciplinary Approach conference, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven http://www.homomimeticus.eu/the-mimetic-condition-workshop/
2019-Trans-imitation: from representation of truth to its imitation: Bernard Stiegler’s notion of ‘derushage’ as a new mimesis, talk inTruth, Fiction, Illusion, Worlds and Experience conference, APL Annual Meeting co-organized with Theory, Culture and Society, 29 May – 2 June 2019 at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria https://www.philosophyliterature.com/2019-conference
2019- The incompleteness of the subject as a constant reminder and a fuzzy ontology, lecture at the Baku Book Centre, Baku AZ
2019- Art in the Age of Pharmacological Translations, presentation in Ta(r)dino 6 Art Centre, Baku, AZ https://www.bakucity.az/afisha/1943/art-in-the-age-of-pharmacological-translations-by-zeigam-azizov
2019-Newspeak, (group show), Baku Biennale, Baku
2019-Headlines etc. (essay-installation), Azerbaijan pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/virtual-reality-at-pavilion-of-azerbaijan-venice-2674
2018-Without Origins: Husserl’s temporal objects in the light of non-essentialist thinking, talk at the British Society for Phenomenology annual conference, the University of Kent, Canterbury https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/bsp-podcast-zeigam-azizov-without-origins-husserls-temporal-objects-in-the-light-of-nonessentialist-thinking/
2018-Disappearance, (group show), Abilov Cultural Centre, Baku, AZ https://report.az/en/cultural-policy/exhibition-disappearance-opens-in-baku/
2018-Letters to Words, (a site-specific installation), Baku, AZ
2017-(with Rainer Winter), Cultural Studies in the Past and Future: Interview with Stuart Hall, Studi Culturali, Bologna, Italy https://www.academia.edu/64504768/Cultural_Studies_in_the_Past_and_Today_Interview_with_Stuart_Hall_2008_?uc-g-sw=85063860
2017- A Temporal Order of Things: Husserl’s ‘temporal objects’ and the (industrial) temporalisation of consciousness, talk at the British Society for Phenomenology annual conference, Brighton University, Brighton https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/bsp-podcast-zeigam-azizov-a-temporal-order-of-things-husserls-temporal-objects-and-the-industrial-temporalisation-of-consciousness/
2017-Local Time, (group show, Artspace, Sydney, Australia https://www.artspace.org.au/ideas-platform/julie-louise-bacon-the-time-salon
2016-Time in the accusative case, Playtime conference, talk at the University of Arts, London and Stuart Hall Foundation, London, UK https://www.victoria-miro.com/news/329
2016-In This City of Bright Fires, (group show), Artim Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan https://yarat.az/index.php?lang=en&page=12&yrtMaincatID=12&yrtCalYear=2016&yrtCalMonth=7&yrtSubcatID=0&yrtEventID=1410&yrtCalDay=1
2016-Decaffeinated colonialism, (site-specific installation) ,MSDM, London
2015- Watching Philosophy on YouTube, an essay in ETUM, E-Journal for Theatre and Media, November
2015-Three films by Zeigam Azizov, Yarat Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7mNKosFY7U
2013-The Origin of Geometry, (group show), Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE https://maraya.ae/exhibitions/view/the-beginning-of-thinking-is-geometric/30
2012- The ‘Cut-n-mix’ Culture: The Impossibilities of Production in New Media, an essay in Ibraaz Journal, https://www.ibraaz.org/essays/47
2012-Oilscapes, (group show) Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/4499/
2012-Oilscapes, catalogue, (ed. with Janet Stewart), Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, 2012 https://issuu.com/peacockvisarts/docs/oilscapes_publication_online_210912/2?e=0
2012 -Migrasophia: migration +philosophy, (book), Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/zeigam-azizov-migrasophia
2011- Linguini, Languages, Cultures, chapter in Commerce by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada https://artmetropole.com/shop/4823
2009-Keynote Lecture at the conference: Rethinking Complicity and Resistance: The Relationship between Visual Arts and Politics, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland https://apha.pt/archives/1072
2011-Commentary, a seminar with students of film studies at Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcN5dBjs1Fk
2011-Illumunazioni, (group show), (54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/35745/the-republic-of-azerbaijan-at-the-54th-venice-biennale/
2011-Machine Raum, (group show) , Velje Museum of Art, Velje, Denmark
2010-Representing Saualm, screening and talk at Lakeside Kunstraum, Klagenfurt, Austria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9tkP8lkyDQ
2009- Unusual phrases for the usual phrasebook, a special project in Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics After the Net, Autonomedia https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/project-space-migrasophia
2009- Post-script to Migrasophia: Ubiquitous topology, an essay in the Open Space, Divus, Vienna
2009-Oil and Art, talk at Kunstraum Lakeside, Austria https://archiv.lakeside-kunstraum.at/index.php?id=117&L=1
2009-Re-imagining October, (group show), Calvert22, London https://www.isaacjulien.com/projects/28/
2008-Dramaturgy of the Subject, (curator), Open Space, Vienna
2008-Hard spell 2, (site-specific installation), https://www.artrabbit.com/events/bursary-showing-zeigam-azizovToynbee Studios, London
2008-The rehearsal room, (group show) FormContent, London
2007-Hard spell: A Promise to Generations, (one-person exhibition), Kunstraum Lakeside, Austria https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/zeigam-azizov-hard-spell-a-promise-to-generations-2/
2007-Dreams and Realities, (group show) ,3rd Baku Biennale, Baku, Azerbaijan
2007- Can we still speak? Text for the MAFA degree show catalogue, Central St. Martins, University of Arts, London
2006-Global Photography now: Post Soviet states, presentation at Tate Modern, London https://www.tate.org.uk/audio/global-photography-now-post-soviet-states-audio-recordings
2006-2nd Caucasus Biennale, (group show) ,Tbilisi, Georgia
2006-Border Crossing, (group show) ,Care off, Milan, Italy
2006-Semionatu, (group show), Neon Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2005- Global tour: Art as a scene of proliferated ‘attractions’ and ideas, chapter in Global Tour: Art, Travel and Beyond, W139, Amsterdam https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/41646/global-tour-art-travel-beyond/
2005- A joker in the pack of globalisation: Dialogue with Stuart Hall, in Routes (ed. Christian Kravagna) Grazer Kunstwerein, Austria https://www.grazerkunstverein.org/routes-imaging-travel-and-migration/
2005-Die Rundshau, (group show) , Aarau Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2004-Trading Places, (group show) , Pump House Gallery, London
2004- Investigations towards the film: Back to Moscow and Back. Again. (book), Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau
2004-North, (group show) ,Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin
2003-(with Stuart Hall), The world has to be made to mean! Venice Biennale, Venice http://projects.e-flux.com/utopia/art/061zeigamhall/index.html
2003- Will multiculturalism be Russified? chapter In Moneynations, (ed. Marion von Osten), Selena Verlag, Vienna, 2003
2003-Utopia Station,(group show), Haus der Kunst, Munich
2003-Dreams and Conflicts, (group show), the 50th Venice Biennale, Venice https://www.e-flux.com/projects/66652/utopia-station/
2003-Sparwasser HQ, (performance), Berlin
2003-Migration: Globalization of Space and Time, (group show), Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
2002- Migrasophia: de ser ‘Artista’ a ‘Devenir Otro’, an essay in Brumaria 1, Madridhttps://transform.eipcp.net/correspondence/1134816059.html
2002-Domesti(fi)cation of Visual Pleasures, chapter in Outsourcing, (ed. Paula Raush) inIVA/MSDM, London, 2002
2002-Outsourcing, talk at inIVA, London
2002-Risk and responsibilities of representation, talk and screening at Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2002-City-Info, (group show), Dresden-Prohlis, Dresden
2002-Broadcast, (performance), Cubitt Gallery, London
2002-Art in Media Space, (group show), Austrian Cultural Forum, London
2002-Routes, (group show) , Grazer Kunstverein, Austria https://www.artforum.com/events/routes-205720/
2001-Mutations, TN Probe, (group show), Tokyo, La Rafffinerie, Brussels,
2001-Belonging, (talk and screening), Shedhalle, Zurich
2001-Loft Story, (group show), SE Travel Agency, Istanbul
2001-Never look back, talk and screening, Shedhalle, Zurich https://loving.shedhalle.ch/en/archive/institutionskritik-ii-04-06-2001-zwei-vortraege-mit-diskussionen-in-diesem-veranstaltungsblock-alejandra-riera-dinge-die-wir-nicht-verstehen-teil-2-zeigam-azizov-colonising-time-conceptualising-fact-teil-1
2001- Radiotemporarie, (ed.), Le Magasin, CNAC, Grenoble
2001-Touring London, online project, (with Isaac Julien), inIVA, London https://iniva.org/programme/projects/touring-london/
2001-Strategies of Presentation, (group show), Kopelica gallerie, Ljubljana
2001-Videonalle 9, (group show), Kunstverein, Bonn
2000-ForthepeopleontheirwaytoEurope, (group show), Exnergasse Kunsthalle, Vienna
2000-Arcade Project, (group show), The Trade Apartment, London
2000-Mutations: Urban Rumours, (group show), Free Art, Fribourg,
2000- Mutations: Urban Rumours, (group show), arc en reve centre d’architecture, Bordeaux
2000-Transact, (online project), Museum in Progress, Vienna https://www.mip.at/en/persons/zeigam-azizov/
2000- A Seminar with Stuart Hall: The world at one with itself, inIVA, London
1999-Temporary Radio, Espace 2, (site-specific project) Radio Suisse -Romand, Geneva
1998-The Trial of Pol Pot,(group show), Centre national d’art contemporain, Grenoble
1998- Russification and terrain of self-determination, chapter in Imported (ed. Rainer Ganahl), Semiotexte, NY
1995-Ideal Standard Summertime, (group show), Lisson Gallery, London https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/ideal-standard-summertime
1995-Postscript, (group show) , Lisson Gallery, London
1995-Viewpoint, (one person exhibition), ICA, London