Exhibition Soundtrack provided by DJ Biggy C on the occasion of Ajamu: Archival Sensoria, a solo exhibition of new and archival works that spotlight Black Queer legacies in Britain by photographer, artist-scholar, archive curator and radical sex activist Ajamu X. 

Ajamu: Archival Sensoria is curated by Cubitt's Curatorial Fellows Languid Hands as part of their programme No Real Closure.

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This audio is part of the Cubitt Saturday Socials artists commission: cubittartists.org.uk/2018/11/29/edu…ion-slideshow/ 
An Edible Portion of Truth is an audio piece composed of six chapters of lively narratives exploring childhood, sexuality, the hardships of adulthood and troubles of getting old.
An Edible Portion of Truth is an audio work by artist Ania Bas developed through conversations with users of Islington’s Home Library Service. It consists of stories told by Boots Bantock, Douglas Dabb, Adeline Defalco, Valentina Dunmow, Leslie Kent, June Pile, Patricia Grace Slark and Phil Wildman.

Please note that in some of the recordings explicit language is used. Recordings were made in an informal, familiar setting amongst all adult friends. The conversations were not scripted but followed narrative prompts. This work aims to share some of the joy of those interactions and bring the participants’ voices to a wider audience.

Chapter 5: Keeping My Brains

Chapter 4: Pop Into the Future

Chapter 3: Sex and Pants

Chapter 2: Sorry Mates You've Got to Share

Chapter 1: Little Devils

CUBITT GALLERY 
Sat 11 May 2019 | A performance by Elaine Mitchener 
10.07 minutes

As part of And We’ll Always Be A Disco In the Glow of Love Ain Bailey has invited three artists, Elaine Mitchener, Hannah Catherine Jones and Rebecca Bellantoni to perform live within the space across three weekends in May, responding directly to the context of the exhibition. Each performance will take place within the exhibition setting and will last for approximately 20-minutes.

Born and raised in East London of Jamaican heritage, Elaine Mitchener is a contemporary vocal-movement artist and composer who has worked leading artists as: Moor Mother, Mark Padmore, The Otolith Group, Sonia Boyce, David Toop, Tansy Davies, Van Huynh Co, Irvine Arditti, Apartment House, London Sinfonietta, Steve Beresford, Christian Marclay, Phil Minton, George E. Lewis, Jason Yarde, Alexander Hawkins. Her UK/European performances include: Bimhuis, Café Oto, 56th Venice Biennale, ICA London, Southbank Centre, Maerzmusik/SAVVY Contemporary, London Contemporary Music Festival. She is co-founder of experimental jazz group Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet; founder of electro-acoustic trio The Rolling Calf and featured vocalist with ensemble Apartment House.  www.elainemitchener.com

And We'll Always Be A Disco...Elaine Mitchener Performance Audio - Sat 11 May 2019

CUBITT GALLERY 
Sun 19 May 2019 | a performance by Hannah Catherine Jones
16.19 minutes 

As part of And We’ll Always Be A Disco In the Glow of Love, Ain Bailey has invited three artists, Elaine Mitchener, Hannah Catherine Jones and Rebecca Bellantoni to perform live within the space across three weekends in May, responding directly to the context of the exhibition. Each performance will take place within the exhibition setting and will last for approximately 20-minutes.

Hannah Catherine Jones (aka Foxy Moron) is a London-based artist, scholar, multi-instrumentalist, radio presenter and DJ (BBC Radio 3 – Late Junction, NTS – The Opera Show), composer, conductor and founder of Peckham Chamber Orchestra – a community project established in 2013. Jones is currently an AHRC DPhil scholar at Oxford University for which the ongoing body of work The Oweds will be presented as a series of live and recorded audio-visual episode-compositions using disruptive sound as a methodology of institutional decolonisation.
http://cubittartists.org.uk/2019/04/18/15577/
www.foxymoron.co.uk

And We'll Always Be A Disco...Hannah Catherine Jones Performance Audio - Sun 19 May 2019

Sat 25 May 2019 | a performance by Rebecca Bellantoni
15.20 minutes

As part of And We’ll Always Be A Disco In the Glow of Love Ain Bailey has invited three artists, Elaine Mitchener, Hannah Catherine Jones and Rebecca Bellantoni to perform live within the space across three weekends in May, responding directly to the context of the exhibition. Each performance will take place within the exhibition setting and will last for approximately 20-minutes.

Rebecca Bellantoni is an artist born and living in London, of Caribbean descent. She works with everyday occurrences and abstracts them; with a focus on the lives and experiences of Black British people, her research looks at the smaller communities that have developed within this larger diaspora. Observed through the lens of pre and post colonial culture, it’s metaphysics; comparative theology, religion, spirituality as well as their cultural crossovers and aesthetics; Bellantoni simultaneous works with colour, it’s codes and objects and their ascribed cultural meanings to further question and interpret. Bellantoni’s interdisciplinary practice encompasses video, performance, sound-text, photography, textiles, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, installation, writing and silversmithing.

And We'll Always Be A Disco...Rebecca Bellantoni Performamce Audio - Sat 25 May 2019

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