jamilah malika is an MFA candidate in Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. her written work recently appeared in the Broadly/VICE publication for Black Power Naps at PSNY. her interactive soundscape was installed at the Art Gallery of Guelph with Critical Mass. currently her text, video and sound works are on view at Prefix ICA Gallery in Toronto. she may employ video/sound installation to ask the same questions she might via performance or print; always as a black femme talking to black femmes about being black femmes. say black femme again. black femme.
reporting live from the impersonal/historical confines of skin and sex, jamilah malika is a mix who mixes, a polygot who translates text off-page into sound, video, performance or object. a writer and a maker, she attends art school in horror at the abuse of words like generative, activate and intersection. she misunderstands how a bio ought to operate as a pitch or a website as proof but given “black femme” is still up on the block, she throws herself in the ring, one two, one two…
