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BIO BRIEF Inter-disciplinary artist fortunate enough to have collaborated with many brilliant creatives across the globe. Mediums include written and spoken word, sound, and photography, film, video, text, and music. MA: Media, communications and culture- Goldsmiths, University of London, England BA: Film and Video -Columbia College, USA Undergrad: Journalism Major University of Missouri in Columbia, USA
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Commissions/Residencies/Presentations 2020- Take BACK workshop- (TBA), activism & Art, commissioned by ZAK, Berlin 2020- "Entropy", Expo, London - "Intro to Cultural Skit-zo-frenia" 2020 Disturbance Exibition- Berlin commissioned for Sonic Art piece (Video)- "Alchemy of Cuts" 2019- Interzone podcast curator/host- live art/performance/lecture 2019- present, -Spoken Word Paris host 2019- Audio Visual Anti-Lecture , - Hampshire college, arts school 2016-18 “Squatting Gionvannis Room” , James Baldwin conference, AUP, Paris (audio-visual anti-lecture)/Beta Salon Paris 2015 "Alien VS Humans" - Black Market project , Musée de l'Homme 2014 Kunstruam Noe, COPIE COMFORME Exibition- mixed media art project 2013 Vienna Arts Institute, NOW NOT NOW conférence, - audio-visual anti-lecture/ video exhibition 2012 IFA (institute for foreign exchange, Berlin/stuttgart) BERLIN TEXTURES, workshop, residency, collaborative installations, Berlin, Germany 2011/12 IFA (institute for foreign exchange, Berlin/stuttgart)- IN THE SEAMS, conference, workshop conceived, realized, and documented, Johannesburg, South Africa 2010/11 IFA (institute for foreign exchange, Berlin/stuttgart)- IMBUZI workshop & documentary, Capetown South Africa 2009 IFA (institute for foreign exchange, Berlin/stuttgart) L'ESPRIT , Pret-a-partager, video documentary, Dakar Senegal 2009 145 THEATRE, residency for realization for audio-visual slam performance , DECODERECODE, Grenoble, France 2005 PROLOGUE: New Feminism, New Europe (commission TRANSNARRATIVES performance, installation, screening), Vienna, Austria 2004 ARTS COUNCIL, LONDON, Independent artists fund- production of TRANSNARRATIVES 2003 AIR-PORT Artist residency, Graz, TRANSNARRATIVES
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Jamika Ajalon
selection of published work and publications 2021- "Skye Papers," Novel, Feminist press, (june ) 2020- "Ressurection 2020" - Paris Lit UP journal no 6 2020- "Fluid Code" Anti-lecture essay published in collection, Opposing Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-nationalism, Cambridge Scholars 2019 - "F.A.R. Space-ways; With out edges the center cannot exist in stasis, publishied in collection We Travel the Space Ways, transcript Press 2019 "TAKE BACK THE NARRATIVE" , conceptual poetry book 2017 - Poem featured, Paris Lit UP journal no 5 2017-20 - Poems featured in MAINTENANT: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art, three rooms press, NY 2018/19- Queer Plume, Fugitive Diaries, - colomnist, IS magazine 2015- “We Go Back to the Future to tell our Story”- in anthology, “now not now” Vienna Arts Acadamy 2012 "FUGITIVE ARCHETYPES OF RESISTANCE: a metamorphic narrative"- on black women, sci fi, and resistance, - in anthology 'Little Book with big visions: How to be an artist and revolutionize the world' witnessed press 2010 “DECODE/RECODE” , Generation X anthology of poetry and short stories 2008 “LOCATIONS OF THE MOTHERSHIP: The black female subject as site of resistance”, 'New Feminisms' anthology 2007 “IS SHE A BOY? Journals from life on the tour”, Female Consequences. Feminism, Antirassismus, Popmusik, anthology TBA. "SkyPapers", novel - Feminist Press, New York, New York * I have been publishing work regulary since late 90's (ie kaliedescope, in DOUBLE DAY book anthology AFREKETE)
Audio/visual Anti-Lectures, Performances, Exhibitions (selected) 2020- Anti Lecture on music &afrofuturism (in association with University of Arts, Berilin, ZAK) 2020 - Intro to Cultural Skit-zo-frenia ,"Entropy" Expo, London, " 2020- "Alchemy of Cuts" Audio Visual Piece(Soon to be lauched for public on Vimeo/Youtube, private link on request) - Disturbance Expo, Lepzig, Germany 2020- "Coffee Pot" - short film, Black Women in Film festival Paris 2020- Poetry Performance/ Runway (improv colloboration)- La Bonne Facture, (la mode/ couture), Runway Show, Paris 2019 - "Getting To the Otherside : Featuring Peals"- Poetic sonic video, Turtles Expo, Cites des Artes, Paris 2019- Audio Visual poetry set - featured poet Paris Lit Up, Paris 2019- Sonic Poetry set - Maison de Poesie Montpellier 2019- Salt water transmissions:queer lands of here remix, audio visual anti lecture , La General, Paris 2019- Poetry Performance, Paris Lit Up Magazine Launch, Paris 2018/2016 Alien(s)kin: Daughter in another country squatting givovannis room, Beta Salon, Paris, /American University Paris, Baldwin conference 2017 FAR: Deep sea Transmisions (sonic video presented @ “Black Market” event, Musee, de l’Homme , Docu-Kingdom Portugal 2014/15 - White Birch blues, sonic poetry video , vienna institute for arts research 2013 - We Go Back To The Future To Tell Our Stories,- audio/visual anti-lecture, Vienna Austria, Arts Academy 2012 - NPoem - sonic poetry video,London, England/Paris, France 2012 -Berlin Heros: Under Urban Skin – single screen audiovisual projection/ experimental doc installation as a part of Berlin Textures, Berlin, Germany 2012 -Alien seen/unseen- (camera/montage)- Multi-screen installation, collaboration with artist, Sinethemba, as a part of Berlin Textures, Berlin, Germany 2012- In the Seams, the Aesthetics of Freedom Expressed-documentary short based on Conference and workshop conceptualized and realized via myself and other pret-apartager artists/curators, Johannesburg, South Africa 2007-11- Locations of the M/othership: Black Female as Fugitive Archetype of Resistance, audio visual anti-lecture, NGBK, and Ladyfest, Berlin, Germany/South London Gallery, UK * I have been making experimental visual work/films since the late 90s, those films and more recent films are distributed by THIRDWORLDNEWS REEL, CINENOVA, and archived in books on Black Women in Film
Discography (selected) Jamika & the Argonauts 2020- (production ) DONTFEED REBOOTED -(album in progressions) 2014/16 DONT FEED THE GATE KEEPERS (album in progressions) Zenzile singer songwriter (singer song writer performer/live tour 2000-2018) Albums Include: 2018- "PEARLS" video/ single 2012 ELECTRIC SOUL 2009 PAWN SHOP 2002 TOTEM 2000 JAMIKA MEETS ZENZILE -------- 2007 HELIUM BALOON ILLUSIONS (Solo)
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