Performance: Letters to Giorgio and Mohamed: Transmigrating Cassettes and Xirsi as a Counter-Archival Method

^{SITAAD is a platform co-founded by Leyla Degan and Naima Hassan in 2022. Drawing on sitaad, a type of devotional gathering organised by Somali women, the duo facilitates interventions within colonial sites, museums and archives.}

^{Leyla Degan is an Italian-Somali artist and researcher working across the borders of photography archives, visual arts and field research. She focuses her practice on colonial archives and restitution in relation to Somalia, with an emphasis on Somali women.}

^{Naima Hassan is a researcher, curator, and archivist based between Berlin and London. She is the managing editor of Annotations in Four Acts (2025), a publication emerging from her role as Associate Curator and Archivist at G.A.S. Foundation, Lagos.}