JAMIKA AJALON
BREIF Bio
Inter-disciplinary artist and lecturer, fortunate enough to have collaborated with many brilliant creatives across international borders, jamika ajalon is a creative polymath/storyteller; writer at base (poet, novelist essayist), she uses a melange of interdisciplinary practice as her pen, ( filmmaker, producer, songwriter, curator and electronic/digital artist/archivist). She has a BA Film/Video, columbia uni, Chicago / MACommunications in Culture and Society, Goldsmiths University,London.
Artiste interdisciplinaire et conférencière, assez chanceuse pour avoir collaboré avec de nombreux créatifs brillants à travers le monde, jamika ajalon est un polymathe créatif; écrivain à la base (poète, romancier,essayiste), elle utilise un mélange de pratiques interdisciplinaires comme plume (cinéaste, producteur, auteur-compositeur, artiste électronique / numérique / archiviste). BA Film/Video, columbia unv, Chicago / MA Communications in Culture and Society, Goldsmiths University,London. Droite a Travaille en France.
Related LINKS
Music Meeting Exposed: jamika ajalon 2023
Radio Libertaire Itw live concert: jamika & the argonauts 2022
Large Hearted Boy review/playlist
Languages
English: maternal
French: fluent
Other Skills:
Premier/Final Cut Pro
Reaper/CuBase
Adobe Photoshop/InDesign
Word/pages/etc
** links to work embedded in section headers & within the textselection of published work, publications, literary work 2024- "Baldwin en Transit collection"- selected poems featured, (tba) 2024- "Skye Papers Panoptic in 2d" - Globalista Anthology, (tba) 2023- "Cliches of a Revolution" poem featured Maintenant:Dada Journal issue #17 2021/22- Ambit Magazine,UK , Issue 246 guest poetry reader/asst to editor 2021-, SKYEPAPERS- Novel,fiction, Feminist Press, New York June 2021 A fictional novel- “A portrait of young Black artists in the 1990s London underground, whose existence is threatened by the rise of state surveillance.” 2021 How Audre Lorde's Genre Blurring Zami Spoke My Truth Into Existence Lit Hub 2021- TRANSMISSION 33- Featured poem, Speculative City #10 Review :“Framed as a kind of rallying call, a kind of subversive, underground transmission to…everyone…To bend physics to resound, to remember. And it’s a lively, flowing, wonderful read!” 2020- Resurrection 2020- Featured poem, Paris Lit UP, Lit 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, published in collection We Travel the Space Ways, transcript Press 2019 - "TAKE BACK THE NARRATIVE" , conceptual poetry book 2018/19- Queer Plume, Fugitive Diaries, - columnist, Itchy Silk Magazine 2017-21 - Poems featured in MAINTENANT: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art, three rooms press, NY 2017 - Poem featured, Paris Lit UP journal no 5,7 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 |
Commissions/Residencies/Talks/Presentations 2024 - Reading From Skye Papers & QA re film work exhibiez - Languid Hands, 198 Gallery London( March) 2023 - James Baldwin Poetry Workshop, Maison Baldwin, Paris - Poetry * Jazz workshop, Dartmoth students, Les Lombards, Jazz Cafe Paris - "Blues as Root of Contemporary Music" Artist talk/workshop, Meeting Music, Netherlands -Elements of the Anti-Lecture: Challenging Systems of Reality- MM, Netherlands -Being a Writer Abroad While Being Black, Williams College, USA, artists talk 2022/2023 -Skye Papers Panoptic – UCLA, USA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Biennale, St Etienne France 2022 - Of Mud and Men - collaboration with artist Ali Cherri, vocal interpretation of text - VENICE BIENNALE (award winning work) 2021/22 - Baldwin à L'Universitè : Workshop Prof with Strasbourg University Students creating music and text around James Baldwin- in connection with 'Baldwin In Transit ' project (jazz and poetry homage to Baldwin ) 2020 - Ain’t Nobody Caught Me, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig & Berlin Germany, Feminist MagiX. Decolonial Inlets" the anti-lecture "afrofuture musiX",2020 This audio-visual anti-lecture, focusing mostly on Black American music made by women, from blues to hip-hop and a bit of the in between, re-imagines her cosmic presence from time into the continuum. 2020- Take BACK , Lecture /Workshop commissioned by ZAK, Berlin, for students at the Academy of Fine Arts In Berlin & Lepzig Germany— Worked with students -speaking to artists that use found-footage to deconstruct, subvert dominant narrative, and how to create ones own. 2019- Art & Activism, Lecture — Hampshire College, Amherst Massachusetts. 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 2016 "Anti-lecture Multiverse"- Un_University conference, Vienna 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 2012 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 |
Audio/visual Anti-Lectures, Performances, Exhibitions (selected)
2024- "Memory Tracks" "Npoem" "Coffee Pot" - retrospective of film/video work 90s-present, Languid Hands 198 Gallery, London Feb- April 2024- Skye Papers Panoptic (extended), Beursschouwburg , Brussels (may 2024) 2022/2023 -Skye Papers Panoptic – UCLA, USA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Biennale, St Etienne France 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 Pearls"- 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 |
Discography (selected) Jamika & the Argonauts 2021/22-REBOOTED - 2014/16 DONT FEED THE GATE KEEPERS 1&2 (album in progressions) Gigs include: Meeting Festival, Netherlands 2023 Jazz Festival, Strasbourg, France March 2023
Zenzile singer songwriter (singer song writer performer/live tour 1999-2019) Albums Include: (selected) 2018- "PEARLS" video/ single 2012 ELECTRIC SOUL 2009 PAWN SHOP 2006 Modus Vivendi 2005 SOUND PATROL 2003 ZENZILE & JAMIKA MEET CELLO 2002 TOTEM 2000 JAMIKA MEETS ZENZILE Solo 2007 HELIUM BALOON ILLUSIONS
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