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contact
For speaking invitations: assistant@amajosephine.me
For projects proposals:
ama@amajosephine.me
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Ama Josephine Budge - Writer / Artist / Curator
Ama Josephine Budge is a Speculative Writer, Artist, Curator and Pleasure Activist whose praxis navigates intimate explorations of race, art, ecology and feminism, working to activate movements that catalyse human rights, environmental evolutions and troublesomely queered identities...
Usually based in London, Ama can also be found loitering around the fried egg stalls of Accra, or gallery bookshops in New York City.
Exhibiting Artworks
Putting the Cooker on Low
Premiere on May 6th
Putting the Cooker on Low explores the daily rituals that allow Black women, femmes and non-binary folk to keep creating in the midst of spiritual, emotional, familial, societal and ecological crises. Putting the Cooker on Low intimates that which happens in the simmer and bubble, on the back burner and the top oven, in the side eye and the hot pot. Thinking with an ancestry of Black feminist petitions for self-preservation, this visual essay works to make visible and then unsettle the ways in which Black womxn artists internalize value-(as)-labour-(as)-capital. The cracks, crevasses and slippages these anti-erotic modes of
survival engender – as felt by both human and non-human ecologies – remain forced from view until they become black holes, into which we are swallowed and disappear. Often without a trace. It is with the cooker on low, that resistance might reduce into potency. It is with the cooker on low that we never run out of gas.
Recent Publications
A City Wages Love
Architectural Review, Where do We go from here?
November 2021
Pleasurable Ecologies - Formations of Care: The Impossibilities of Invitation
Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 3, September 2021
“Pollination as Praxis: The Queer Temporalities of Intimate Ecologies
Conversation Across Place, July 2021
Ama Josephine Budge's A Shoal of Lovers Leads me Home is a " heady, hopeful sensorium"
- Michael Matheson, Anathema: Spec from the Margins
Leap
Platform London, January 2021
No Home Left Behind
Architectural Review, October 2020
“Ama is exactly the kind of young writer we need, innovative, daring, fantastical and delicious, the UK’s N.K Jemisin meets Tomi Adeyemi.”
- Tosin Coker, The Mouth of Babes
Illustrated by Fernanda Peralta
Speculative Fabulations: Beneath Yaba's Garden
Feminist Review: Archives, July 2020
Ama Josephine Budge in conversation with Angela Chan (in) Science Fiction
Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press:
Documents of Contemporary Art, 2020
Fragments Of Exercises For Learning
How To Remember/ To Member
The Harems That Haunt, Delicately
How Flexible Can We Make The Mouth - Alberta Whittle, 2019
Upcoming Events
Center for Human Rights and the Arts, Bard College
World premiere of Putting the Cooker on Low, a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Ama Josephine Budge and writer Dr. Chelsea M. Frazier, moderated by Dr. J.T. Roane (Arizona State University)
6 May 2022
King's College London
Inhuman Memory: ‘Race’ and Ecology Across Timescales
26 April 2022
Nottingham Contemporary
After Growth: A Symposium on Post-Capitalist Imaginaries
19 March 2022 – 20 March 2022
