Imani Mason Jordan

Imani Mason Jordan (b. 1992, London) 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 2018, Imani has curated various exhibitions and public programmes alongside Rabz Lansiquot as Languid Hands (2019-) and SYFU (2018).

At Rupert, Imani Mason Jordan is completing THE BOOK OF SLASH POEMS, a mythobiographical book-length poetry collection / performance script that uses automatic writing and the experimental multi-sensory use of the “/” to explore the erotics of kinship and the gender-deviant body. Imani will also develop their solo performance work TREAD/MILL, which uses minimalist techniques to explore the labouring body and material cultures of carcerality.