This episode features a conversation with artist Amina Gimba in 2021 at PerfocraZe International Artist Residency -p IAR in Kumasi, Ghana. Amina is a visual artist and freelance graphic designer from Northeast Nigeria who specialises in simplifying everyday experiences into provocative artistic pieces, using ink, colour pencils, crayons, tie and dye, and graphic design software.
We spoke about the power of illustration to speak across language, the possibilities for silence in our everyday communication, the joy of making queer art, and the dream of working for free.
S.W.E.A.T. features conversations about performance and performativity of the sexual/ized body at work—work as labour of survival and labour of a/Art with host Mad Kate.
My hope is that these conversations contribute to dialogues which recognize all work as deserving of respect, healthy conditions, and a living wage.
Amina Gimba’s website: www.aminagimba.com
WHER : https://whernigeria.org/
PerfocraZe International Artist Residency www.crazinistartist.com
Gofundme Campaign for -p IAR: https://www.gofundme.com/f/xx48d3-save-piar?qid=cedd48679846198a99f2d784f362af81
HYENAZ Reading Group: https://www.hyenaz.com/art-and-extractivism-reading-group/
