About
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jamikaajalon(at)gmail.com |
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 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
Audio/visual Anti-Lectures, Performances, Exhibitions (selected) 2020- "Alchemy of Cuts" Audio Visual Piece(TBA) - Disturbance Expo, Lepzig, Germany 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 selection of published work and publications
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 books anthology AFREKETE) Discography (selected) Jamika & the Argonauts 2020- (production tba) 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 Solo 2007 HELIUM BALOON ILLUSIONS
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