Ama Josephine Budge - Writer / Artist / Curator
Ama Josephine Budge is a British-Ghanaian Speculative Writer, Artist, Curator and Pleasure Activist who explores the kinships between Blackness, feminism, decolonial aesthetics, queer erotics and ecology to form a praxis she has named Intimate Ecologies, working toward liberatory interspecies futures.
Usually based in London, Ama can also be found loitering around the fried egg stalls of Accra, or gallery bookshops in New York City.
published work
Sans titre : une incantation pour les futures mères
Euphoric Failures: Rehearsing Practice, Practising Liberation
Falling In: Movement and Becoming in Curatorial Research. Frame Contemporary Art Finland, 2024
Pollination as Praxis: The Queer Temporalities of Intimate Ecologies
INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, 2023
We?
Locating Blackness In Intimate Ecologies
C& and C&AL Print Issue #12/4, 2023
RESET: At the Caress of Evening and Night, Haunted Tender Worlds Birth
Twilight Land, Moderna Museet (Sweden), 2023
Subtle Intimacies – Insistent Shadows
UNCHORUS, Freelands Foundation, 2023
Eugenics - Population Control
Informatics of Domination, Duke University Press, edited by Zach Blas, Melody Jue and Jeniffer Rhee, 2023
Decolonial dreaming - death dreams
What We Stay For
The Material Kinships Reader, Onomatopee Press, 2022
Prologue
Creative Responses to Sustainability: Green Guide, by Invisible Flock, 2021
A city that wages love (commission)
Architectural Review, Where do we go from here?, 2021
Pleasurable Ecologies – Formations of Care: The Impossibilities of Invitation
Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 3, 2021
In Search of God, Dirt, and Ecstasy (commission)
HOLDING THE LINE - A refrain in two parts (Film) and DIS-A Lesson in Reversal or Unlearning, 2021
Leap
London Leap Platform: Just Transition Values, 2021
No Home Left Behind
Architectural Review, 2020
Ama Josephine Budge in Conversation with Angela Chan (in) Science Fiction
Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press: Documents of Contemporary Art, 2020
Speculative Fabulations: Beneath Yaba's Garden
Feminist Review: Archives, 2020
Imaging an Assisted Evolution: The environmental futurity of Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, Issue: Curatorial Care
Of Parables, Patterns, and Progeny — Rethinking Trans Theory with Octavia E. Butler
Think Pieces by the UCL IAS Review, Issue 2: Turbulence
Fragments of Exercises For Learning How To Remember/ To Member The Harems That Haunt, Delicately
How Flexible Can We Make The Mouth - Alberta Whittle, 2019
BBZ 2019 Graduate Show: From Loneliness into Abundance
Afropunk, Sept 2019
Well Hung: reflections on Gray Wielebinski’s Shaved in Opposite Directions (commission)
Watching the Channel (fiction)
Consented Magazine, Issue 7: Environmentalism, 2019
A Shoal of Lovers Leads me Home (fiction)
Anathema Spec from the Margins, Issue 5, Canada, 2018
Rupturous Desires: Queer Bodies Are Made from Mountains (commission)
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Aperture, 2018
Just Like Us: Queer Intimacies Familiar
Chew Magazine, Issue 1, Toronto, 2018
Wet and Blue
Consented Magazine, Issue 5: Love & Desire, 2018
Feeder (fiction)
Skin Deep Magazine, Issue 7: The Food Issue, 2017
Wodo Nublanuito - Last One Correct
Mixed-Race, Queer, Feminist(MRQF) Zine, Issue 3: I am a bridge // I am not your bridge, 2017
The Future Belongs to Gastropods
Consented Magazine, Issue 3: Gender, 2017
Seeing in colour
HYSTERIA RADICAL FEMINIST PERIODICAL, issues 3,4,5 (2015 - 2016)