Jessica Edwards
Programme: Recursive Futures… Precarious Crossings: “heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs”*
Date: Friday, 5. September, 14:30-15:30
Venue: ifk arkaden
Free Entry!
With a career steeped in British academia (UEL, Central St. Martins, LCC), Jessica Edwards is an independent researcher, writer, curator and artist/performer whose conceptual and critical interests are situated at the intersection of race and artificial intelligence, the art/s of fugitivity, time, memory and racial trauma, and the entanglements and afterlives of colonial history and racial capitalism. Reading black female slave narratives and feminisms, critical race studies and the speculations of black science fiction with the generative dimensions of continental philosophy, her research works toward a counter-actualising of the historical erasures and continued extractive practices exacted against the black body. The nexus between Cold War sonic politics and sound system culture has also been a focus of her writing and collaborative performance.
Jessica’s, critical, curatorial and artistic output has featured within a variety of exhibition contexts, public forums and publications/imprints including: alexander levy Gallery, (Berlin), Kindl, Centre for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Marta Herford Museum/Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Urbanomic Press, Flatlines/Hyperdub, ICA (London), Mutek Festival (Montreal), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Centre Pompidou (Paris), National Film Theatre/BFI (London), amongst others.