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Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone is a British Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, curator, scholar and pleasure activist whose praxis navigates that which she has termed “Intimate Ecologies” to explore Blackness, aesthetics and queer, pleasurable, interspecies futures. Ama is an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London), an MFA tutor at the Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam), and a Research Associate at VIAD (University of Johannesburg). Ama is in the final year of her PhD at Birkbeck University of London, titled: Intimate Ecologies: Queer Speculations on Pleasure, Blackness and Decolonial Aesthetics
Ama’s wider intra-disciplinary work thinks through sustainable ecologies of care and more-than-survival for BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) women and queer folk in the arts and academia. She is interested in curation as a practice of caring for people, places and possible Otherwise worlds. Ama’s essays, short fiction and art writing have been published internationally; and her video, installation and performance work has been commissioned and shown internationally. Ama’s speculative writing was shortlisted for the 2023 Future Worlds Prize for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Colour; she is a curatorial fellow with Frame Contemporary Art Finland (Helsinki) and EVA International (Limerick); was selected for the 2023 Postnatural Independent Programme (Madrid); as well as the 2024 PerforCraze artist residency (Ghana); and was the 2020/21 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism with Bard College (New York). Ama’s work has been translated into Twi, French, German and Swedish, and has been published by Duke University Press, ContemporaryAnd, the Architectural Review, the Feminist Review, Aperture, The Independent, Whitechapel Gallery, and more.
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