Imani Mason Jordan (b. 1992, London) is an interdisciplinary writer, artist, editor and curator interested in poetics and performance.

 

Imani has written numerous articles, reviews, essays, poems, plays and love letters, some of which they have published. After completing their MA in Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths in 2019, their pamphlet OBJECTS WHO TESTIFY was published by Taylor Le Melle at PSS.

 

Imani began their writing practice with a keen focus on interdisciplinary liberation texts and writing toward revolution; their writing remains inherently political. Since 2016, they have developed a keen interest in oration, experimentation and practices of reading aloud, from which they have synthesised a performance practice that centres writing and collaboration as well as using the speaking voice as an instrument.

 

Recent performance/audio projects include EARTHLY ACCOMPLICE (2023) with Felix Taylor, TREAD/MILL: WIP (2021-); ATLANTIC RAILTON: LIVE (2021) with Ain Bailey & WELCOME NOTE IN A WELCOME SPEECH (2019-22) with Libita Sibungu. They are featured in two tracks on the 2020 album BRASS (by Moor Mother & billy woods) and continue to collaborate with Moor Mother on various projects. Imani is currently touring as a performer in Eve Stainton’s IMPACT DRIVER, and directing Ebun Sodipo’s theatrical debut, VITORIA : BURACO, for LIVE COLLISION: 2024. Alongside Samra Mayanja, Imani is co-founder of PAPERFLESH PUBLISHING, which facilitates the international and local gathering of intellectually rigorous black writers in order to study-create-unearth liberation texts across-over-beyond our own time-language-geography-genre.