Jamika Ajalon

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Jamika Ajalon Cothrine (* 1968 in Saint Louis , Missouri ) is an American singer and lyricist for the band Zenzile , artist , poet and director .

Life

Jamika Ajalon trained as a journalist at the University of Missouri in Columbia between 1986 and 1989 and then studied film and video at Columbia College until 1993. She completed a master's degree in Media, Communications and Culture at Goldsmith University in London in 1995 and supplemented her horizons in 1997 with the UK New Directors workshop at the Women's Audio Visual Education Scheme in Great Britain. She lives in London and Paris .

Jamika Ajalon's poems have been published in various anthologies.

Her short films were shown at film festivals in Europe and the USA and on the British television station Channel 4.

Furthermore she developed interdisciplinary film and video works, which she u. a. performed in Austria and Great Britain.

She can be seen as an actress in the film Go Fish (1994) directed by Rose Troche .

As a musician, she works permanently with the band Zenzile . Since the jointly released album "5 + 1 Zenzile meets Jamika" she is considered the sixth member of the band. She performed at various festivals ( Festival International de Jazz de Montréal , at the South by South West Festival in Austin) and in various places such as New York, London (Cargo), Paris (La Cigale), in Austria and in Africa, among others . a. together with the Urban Poets , with the Tony Allen Band and with The Shrine . Under the name Jamika and the Bowdel Band , she works musically with Nicolas Gallard (drums), Nicolas Meslien, Laurent Baron, Frank Bergere, Jean-Christophe Wauthier and Vincent Erdeven ( Zenzile ).

As an artist, she took part in the fashion photography workshop of the Institute for Foreign Relations in 2008. V. in Dakar, Prêt-à-pARTager . In 2010 she took part in IMBUZI , the workshop of the Institute for Foreign Relations e. V. in Cape Town, and in 2011 at IN THE SEAMS , the workshop of the Institute for Foreign Relations e. V. in Johannesburg.

In her artistic works, Jamika Ajalon deals with the interplay of discrimination based on skin color, origin, gender and sexual orientation. She describes the positions and roles of Women of Color in society and analyzes the images with which these roles are communicated in mass media and film. Jamika Ajalon brings this content into her work at Zenzile .

Works

Artistic and documentary film and video works (selection)

  • 2012: N.Poem , artistic video
  • 2012: Video interview with Mcanuff and Jey Ree from Zenzile
  • 2012: Under Urbanskin Berlin's Afro German Heroes , at Berlin Textures , experimental film documentation of an artistic intervention in public space, 2012
  • 2011: WOC (Woman of Color) and the FAR (fugitive archetypes of resistance) , video montage on the subjectivity of black women and their performance in depictions of the future and cyberspace, 2011
  • 2009: Decode Recode , audio-video-graphic-text-work (called "sonic slam project" or also ciné slam project )
  • 2008: pret-a-partager , interdisciplinary art workshop 2008 in Dakar, Senegal, documentary L'esprit Prêt a Partager about this workshop; Berlin, Senegal, group exhibition at IFA 2009 and from April 27 to July 8, 2012 in Berlin
  • 2009: Locations of the M / othership: Black Female as Fugitive Archetype of Resistance , audiovisual lecture performance in the NGBK as part of (re) positioning! on June 19 and 20, 2009; at the Ladyfest , Berlin 2009
  • 2007: Locations of the M / othership , audio-visual installation, South London Gallery, London
  • 2005: Black Chick in White Hat: the ambiguous nature of performing race , audiovisual lecture performance, (part of the exhibition Born To Be White ) Vienna 2005
  • 2003–2005: trans-narrative (s) , digital audio-video installation and live performance, (in connection with Prologue: New Feminism, New Europe ) in Manchester 2005, London 2004, Vienna and Graz 2003
  • 2000–2001: Cultural-Skit-zo-frenia , digital video-audio live installation at the NitroBeat Festival ICA, Mardi Gras Arts Festival , London 2000, Women in Digital Arts Conference , London, 2001
  • 1998: Teens Talk Revolution , documentation installation, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, ISEA commission, Great Britain
  • 1997–1998: Andro in Magenta , site-specific multi-screen video installation, Channel 4 Commission, Lit-Pop poetry video Series / Lux Cinema Commission, London
  • 1994: Shades , short film, 12 min.
  • 1993: Introduction to Cultural-Skit-zo-frenia , short film, 10 min.

Awards and Scholarships:

  • 2009: 145 THEATER, Grenoble - residency for realization for audio-visual slam performance, DecodeRecode
  • 2004: Arts Council, Independent artists fund-production of Transnarratives , London
  • 2003: Air_port Artists Residency, FORUM Stadtpark, Graz - Project Transnarratives
  • 1998: International Poetry Video Festival Award, London - England You Have Changed
  • 1997: Cine women's experimental film award, Great Britain - Project Memory Tracks , experimental video

Solo exhibitions:

  • 2002: "Jamika Ajalon: Meant To Survive - poetry video loop", Drill Hall, London / "Jamika Ajalon - Elephant Residents Speak: Regeneration", Elephant and Castle local artist fund, London
  • 2003: Jamika Ajalon - Transnarratives ", FORUM, Graz
  • 2004: Jamika Ajalon - Transnarratives ", 291 Gallery, Centerprise, London

Exhibition participation:

  • 2011: Civilmedia 11 , Salzburg
  • 2009: Prêt-à-pARTager , Institute for Foreign Relations V.
  • 2009: New Society for Fine Arts (NGBK), Berlin; Lady Fest, Berlin
  • 2008: Lady Fest, Berlin
  • 2006: Harold Offeh - The Mothership Collective , South London Gallery, London
  • 2005: prologue new feminism / new europe , Cornerhouse, Manchester; "Born to be white", IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
  • 2002: Mons Veneris - Female Geographies , Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
  • 2001: Women in Digital Arts Conference , Round House, London
  • 2000: "Cultural Sketchofrenia", Nitro-Beat Black Theater Festival, London / Mardi Gras Festival, London / Shoreditch Film Festival, London
  • 1999: Islington Arts Festival, London
  • 1998: Women in the Director's Chair film festival, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1997: Film Festival, New York / Film Festival, Birmingham

literature

  • Jamika Ajalon: The Fugitive Archetype of Resistance: a metamorphical narrative , in: grassrootsfeminism, April 13, 2011
  • Jamika Ajalon: Fugitive archetypes of resistance - on black women, sci fi, and resistance , in: New feminisms anthology, 2011
  • Elke aus dem Moore , Sylvie Arnaud, Jamika Ajalon Cothrine and Antje Gera: pret-a-partager: a transcultural exchange in art, fashion and sports , Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2009
  • Prêt-à-pARTager , Institute for Foreign Relations V. (ifa publication), 2009
  • Jamika Ajalon: L'esprit Pret a Partage (Documentation), 2009
  • Jamika Ajalon: Locations of the M / othership: The black female subject as site of resistance , in: Rosa Reitsamer, Marina Grzinic: New Feminism , 2007
  • Jamika Ajalon: Is She a Boy (poem), in: journals from life on the tour, 2006/2007
  • Jamika Ajalon: Be a Girl: Diary Entries dans le Camion and Other not Other - Interview with Jamika Ajalon, in: Rosa Reitsamer and Rupert Weinzierl: Female Consequencies. Vienna 2006
  • Jamika Ajalon: Guitar (poem), in: Karen McCarthy (ed.): Kin - New Fiction by Black and Asian Women , Serpents Tail Verlag, 2003
  • Jamika Ajalon: On Nihilistic Adventure (poem), in: Maja Prausnitz (ed.): Velocity. the Best of Apples and Snakes. Black Spring Press Ltd., 2003
  • Jamika Ajalon: Androgyny Becomes Her and Immaculate (Poems), in: Modern Love Anthology, 2001
  • Jamika Ajalon: Kaleidoscope (poem), in: Käthe H. Fleckenstein (ed.): Sappho kisses the world. Stories of Lesbians from four Continents , Berlin 1999
  • Jamika Ajalon: For Jean W and When we are Poor (poem), in: Karen McCarthy (ed.): Bittersweet. Contemporary Black Womens Poetry. , 1998
  • Jamika Ajalon: Blackability (poem), in: Richard Peabody (ed.): Gargoyle No. 41, 1998
  • Jamika Ajalon: I don't need (poem), in: Wasafiri Magazine No. 27 African American Writing , 1998
  • Jamika Ajalon: Kaleidoscope (poem), in: Catherine E. McKinley (ed.): Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing , 1995
  • Jamika Ajalon: Revolution and Ironic (poems), in: Chocolate Art Poetry Anthology
The band Zenzile , in the middle is Jamika with raised arms

Music and sound experiments

  • 2000: 5 + 1 Meets Jamika with Zenzile, (Crash Disques)
  • 2001: Sound Patrol with Zenzile, (Crash Disques)
  • 2002: Totem with Zenzile, (Small Ax)
  • 2004: Zenzile and Jamika meet cello with Zenzile, (Small Ax)
  • 2005: Modus vivendi with Zenzile, (Supersonic)
  • 2007: Living in Monochrome with Zenzile, (Yotanka-Uwe)
  • 2007: Solo album "Helium Balloon Illusions", vinyl double album, Hip Hop , Electro , Dub and Spoken Word
  • 2009: Pawn Shop with Zenzile (Yotanka)
  • 2009: Decode Recode - a sonic slam project with the Bowdel Band, album in production
  • 2012: Electric Soul with Zenzile (Yotanka)
  • 2012: Whitebirchblueruff3 - "Sonic poetry in progress"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AiR_port - Folke Köbberling, Jamika Ajalon  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (KulturServerGraz, accessed on August 28, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kulturserver-graz.at  
  2. ↑ a b c d Jamika Ajalon's CV on her website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / jamikaajalon.com  
  3. ^ Rosa Reitsamer, Robert Weinzierl: Female Consequences. Vienna 2005 ( Memento of the original dated February 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.female-consequences.org
  4. ↑ a b c Jamika Ajalon: "The Fugitive Archetype of Resistance: a metamorphical narrative", in: grassrootsfeminism, April 13, 2011 , accessed on August 28, 2012.
  5. ↑ Interview with Jamika Ajalon about her work at Zenzile on Wizz Music ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 29, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wizzmusic.com
  6. ↑ N.Poem on Vimeo , accessed on 20 March 2013
  7. ↑ Jamika Ajalon interviews Mcanuff, video on Wizz Music ( memento of the original from October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 29, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wizzmusic.com
  8. ↑ Jamika Ajalon interviews Jey Ree, video on Wizz Music ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 29, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wizzmusic.com
  9. ^ Berlin Textures
  10. ↑ Description of the reception of WOC (Woman of Color) and the FAR (fugitive archetypes of resistance) on the CivilMedia blog on April 29, 2011, accessed on August 28, 2012
  11. ↑ Text by Jamika Ajalon about Decode Recode and sound sample on the Dig me Out website , accessed on August 28, 2012.
  12. ^ Documentary L'esprit Prêt a Partager by Jamika Ajalon on her Vimeo account
  13. ↑ Artfacts about pret-a-partager , accessed on August 28, 2012.
  14. ↑ Africavenir website via pret-a-partager , accessed on August 28, 2012.
  15. ↑ (Re) positioning! on the website of the NGBK Berlin , accessed on August 28, 2012.
  16. ↑ transnarratives: graz , video work by Jamika Ajalon on her Vimeo account
  17. ↑ Announcement of a workshop discussion for July 22, 2003, 7:00 pm about the artistic work of Jamika Ajalon  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 28, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kulturserver-graz.at  
  18. ↑ a b c d e Artist database of the Institute for Foreign Relations e. V. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 28, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kuenstlerdatenbank.ifa.de
  19. ↑ "Whitebirchblueruff3" on Jamika Ajalons Soundcloud page , accessed on March 20, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Ajalon, Jamika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ajalon Cothrine, Jamika (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and lyricist for the band Zenzile, artist, poet and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Louis , Missouri