writing
Jaz is a writer and artist-curator, employing the Afro-Speculative to explore social space, community, and culture-building.
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Her writing tends to manifest as research, articles, artistic responses, and stories; exploring themes of faith, diaspora and Pan Africanism, speculative Blackness, existentialism and aftermaths.
A Call to All Guardians of the Black [British] Village
March 2024. Article. Laku Neg.
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Ishmail DeNiro invites us into the Saracen's Head
February 2024. Article. Foyer Magazine.
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The Mamahood Space: Motherhood Can Be Lonely, So This Brummie Mummy Decided To Address It
October 2023. Article. Black Ballad.
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Till It's Done: Heterotopias & Pocket Universes
June 2023. Article. Commissioned by SLUICE under theme 'Specificity'.
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Practice as Rehearsals of Speculative Futures
June 2023. Exhibition text for Disagreements as Domains of Nausea and Elation, curated by Nimco Kulmiye Hussein at The Austrian Cultural Forum (London).
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Amartey Golding's 'Chainmail 3': A Sanctuary for Self-Actualisation
April 2023. Exhibition text for Amartey Golding's In the Comfort of Embers. Commissioned by The Power Plant Gallery (Toronto).
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A Cleaner's Lament
(or The Umpteenth Existential Crisis)
19 September 2022. Poem. Performed at Digbeth Art Space for Grace Ndiritu's 'Grief: A Love Letter' (All About Love), curated by Zarina Rossheart, April 2023. BUILDHOLLYWOOD.
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2022. Screenplay. Commissioned by the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre (De Montfort University). First showcased at the Creating Joy Film Festival, April 2022.
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2022. Song. Commissioned in response to Keith Piper's 'Jet Black Futures' exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall. First performed with Cellist Millicent James & The Word Life Corral, April 2022.
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2021-22. Publication. Commissioned in response to Keith Piper's 'A Ship Called Jesus' exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
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2021. Song. Commissioned in response to Keith Piper's 'A Ship Called Jesus' exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. First Performed with Cellist Millicent James, The Word Life Corral & Ikon Youth Programme, August 2021.
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2021. Poem. Just An Illusion.
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2021. Poem. Commissioned in response to the theme of 'a liberated future' by MAIA for The Spatial Imagination symposium, January 2021.
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2020. Monologue. SLAMinutes.
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2019. Article. Black Ballad.
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ELLIPSES
2018. Screenplay. Troy Aidoo.
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2018. Screenplay. BRMTWN.
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RELATIONS
2018. Duologue. Deadman Theatre.
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2018. Academic Essay.
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2017. Academic Essay.
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2017. Academic Essay.
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2017. Academic Essay.
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Reservoir Dogs x White Masculinity
2016. Academic Essay.