For the second UK Black Earth Study Club, performers Ain Bailey, Elaine Mitchener and Imani Mason Jordan will improvise.
Developed in tandem with Nolan Oswald Dennis’s exhibition, throwers, the club offers a relaxed environment to reflect on the personal, philosophical, historical, political, scientific, and technological.
Ain Bailey is a sound artist and DJ. She facilitates workshops considering the role of sound in the formation of identity and recently held a residency at the ICA, London. Exhibitions in 2019 included ‘The Range’ at Eastside Projects, Birmingham; ‘RE:Respite’ at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, and ‘And We’ll Always Be A Disco In The Glow Of Love’, a solo show at Cubitt Gallery, London. Bailey was also commissioned by Supernormal and Jupiter festivals to create and perform a new work, ‘Super JR’. Last year, Bailey was commissioned by Radiophrenia Glasgow, a temporary art radio station, to create a new composition entitled ‘Ode To The N.H.S.’. Currently, following a commission by Serpentine Projects, she is conducting sound workshops with LGBTI+ refugees and asylum seekers, as well as working on a commission for Savvy Contemporary’s new radio station, SAVVYZAAR.
Elaine Mitchener is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist and composer working between contemporary/experimental new music, free improvisation and visual art. She is currently a Wigmore Hall Associate Artist, and in 2025 an Artist Associate with Dutch new music group ENSEMBLE KLANG and also a Fellowship with the international performance group NEEDCompany. Elaine was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow (2022) and an exhibiting artist in the British Art Show 9 (2021-22).
In February 2022 Mitchener was awarded an MBE for Services to Music. Her debut album SOLO THROAT was released in May 2024 under Café Oto’s OTORUKO label.
In 2024, Elaine guest curated Politics of the Voice (Courtisane Festival, Ghent) and Basquiat&Cage 8424 for Fruitmarket Gallery’s Deep Time Festival.
Composers and artists she has worked and collaborated with include: George E Lewis, Jennifer Walshe, Matana Roberts, Jay Bernard; visual artists Sonia Boyce, Christian Marclay and The Otolith Group; experimental musicians such as Moor Mother, Joelle Leandre, Saul Williams, Pat Thomas and David Toop. Elaine is founder of the collective electroacoustic unit The Rolling Calf.
Imani Mason Jordan 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. Since 2016, they have developed a keen interest in poetics, 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. 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 is also Director of PAPERFLESH PUBLISHING, a multi-genre small press and editing studio for the intellectually rigorous, politically-minded black writer. Since 2019, Imani has collaborated extensively with Rabz Lansiquot as part of the artistic and curatorial duo Languid Hands.

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