Black Earth Study Club

About

dove / Christine Kirubi is a poet-artist based in London. She is the author of WILDPLASSEN published by the87press last year.

Imani Mason Jordan is an interdisciplinary writer, artist, editor and curator interested in poetics and performance. Imani has written numerous articles, reviews, essays, poems, plays and love letters, some of which they have published. Since 2016, they have developed a keen interest in poetics, oration, experimentation and practices of reading aloud, from which they have synthesised a performance practice that centres writing and collaboration as well as using the speaking voice as an instrument. After completing their MA in Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths in 2019, their pamphlet OBJECTS WHO TESTIFY was published by Taylor Le Melle at PSS. Imani is also Director of PAPERFLESH PUBLISHING, a multi-genre small press and editing studio for the intellectually rigorous, politically-minded black writer. Since 2019, Imani has collaborated extensively with Rabz Lansiquot as part of the artistic and curatorial duo Languid Hands.

Nikita Sena is a curator, writer and researcher from London, by way of Ghana. Her practice is informed by experimental pedagogies and the connection between aesthetic forms and their socio-political implications. Nikita is currently rifling through notions of ephemerality and abjection, discomfort, inappropriateness and desire. A former curatorial fellow on the New Curators programme, Nikita is now part of the curatorial team working on the Kerry James Marshall exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.