Imani
Jacqueline
Brown
Black Ecologies,
2018 –
1. What remains at the ends of the earth?
2. Black Ecologies
2. Black Ecologies
3. Follow the Oil
4. Forensic Architecture: If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?
5. To the pigeons on my balcony: A love letter
6. The Remote Sensation of Disintegration
6. The Remote Sensation of Disintegration
7. Will the river remember
the land we lost?
8. Fossil Free Fest
Blights Out,
2014 – 2018
1. Blights Out
2. Under Water (1731-2001)
3. The Living Glossary
4. Blights Out for Mayor
5. Blights Out for President
Occupy Museums,
2011 – 2018
1. Occupy Museums
2. Debt of 500 Artists Largely Owned by Five Nongovernmental Economic Superpowers (After Hans Haacke)
3. Debtfair
&c.
1. Forensic Architecture
2. Truth as Theatrical Fiction
3. From here I can see this
era fade at the edges of
my vision
4. Solitary Gardens
5. The House that Herman
Built
Published,
2014 –
1. “Ecological Witnessing” in Fieldwork for Future Ecologies 2. MARCH Issue 02: Black Ecologies
3. Black Ecologies: an opening, an offering
4. To the pigeons on my
balcony: a love letter
5. Should we consider fossil fuel extraction an unjust enterprise?
6. Between You and Me (parts 1, 2, and 3)
7. The Black Market: Kevin Brisco, Jr.
8. Zombifying
Neighborhoods
9. Performing Bare Life
Bio,
1988 –
Imani Jacqueline Brown is an artist, activist, writer, and researcher from New Orleans, based between New Orleans and London. Her work investigates the “continuum of extractivism,” which spans from settler-colonial genocide and slavery to fossil fuel production and climate change. In exposing the layers of violence and resistance that form the foundations of settler-colonial society, she opens space to imagine paths to ecological reparations.
Imani combines archival research, ecological philosophy, legal theory, people’s history, and counter-cartographic strategies to map the spatial logics that make geographies, unmake communities, and break Earth’s geology. Her research is disseminated through films and art installations, public actions and performance, and reports and testimony delivered to courts and organs of the United Nations. Her artistic outputs have been presented internationally, including in the US, the UK, Poland, Germany, and the UAE, most recently at the 12th Berlin Biennale.
Imani received her MA with distinction from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2019 and her BA in Anthropology and Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2010. Among other things, she is currently a PhD candidate at Queen Mary, University of London, a research fellow with Forensic Architecture, and an associate lecturer in MA Architecture at the Royal College of Arts.
