The exhibition Ajamu X A Sensual Chorus of Gestures will be open for viewing from 6 - 8pm
Ajamu X studied at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2022 he was canonised in his home town by The Trans-Pennine Traveling Sisters as The Patron Saint of Darkrooms and also received an honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society. He is the co-founder (with Dr Topher Campbell) of rukus! Federation/Black LGBTQ Archive and is one of the leading specialists on black queer heritage, history and cultural memory in the UK. rukus! will the subject of a major exhibition at Somerset House 11 October 2024 – 19 January 2025. Most recently, Ajamu X has co-founded Spit & Spider Press with Dr Sheena Calvert, an alternative publishing venture focusing on the radical materiality of the book.
Forthcoming exhibitions in 2024 also include Photographing 80’s Britain: A Critical Decade, Tate Britain, London, This is the end of the world, but it always started with you, Skånes konstförening, Sweden, and Ultraviolet, London (a group exhibition curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley).
madison moore is an artist-scholar, DJ and Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media ar Brown University. He holds a PhDin American Studies from Yale and is the author of Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric. He is currently writing a book about queer nightlife as a method of living.
