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jhani randhawa

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A Mouth Holds Many Things
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Dream Baby Dream
Act of Making Home
CICA Museum
Todd Madigan Gallery
Heimbold Visual Arts Center
Thymele Arts
Woolen Mill Gallery
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Long form research

Archival documents in the National Archives in London. Photo by Jhani Randhawa. National Archives in London. Photo by Jhani Randhawa. Personal journal notes after a day in the National Archives. Photo by Jhani Randhawa. Documents from the National Archives in London. Photo by Jhani Randhawa. Family photo album 1963–1985. Photo by Jhani Randhawa. Archives pulled for research at the National Archives in London. Photo by Jhani Randhawa. Mombasa, Kenya colonial map. National Archives in London. Photo by Jhani Randhawa. African and Asian Reading Room at the British Library in London. Photo by Jhani Randhawa. Archival documents in the National Archives in London. Photo by Jhani Randhawa. British Library in London. Photo by Jhani Randhawa.
“I am researching colonial dictations of racial and gender formations mediated through sport, agricultural labor, and ecology in the Indian Ocean circuit from 1890–1980. This is part of a larger hybrid project on queer ancestors, independence solidarity movements, pre-colonial migration and spiritualities, and archival practices.

Entangled thematic worlds emerge from this research: speculation and erasure in archival marginalia, sport and leisure among militarized colonial subjects, industrialized sugarcane experiments, labor and land laws, Black and Asian solidarities, novel gender expressions, non-human animal husbandry, medical/biological policing, millenarian rebellions, climate crises and famine, caste-race-gender-class-delineated “Love Laws,” anti-colonial independence movements, and more.

My inquiries are building toward a book-length collection of essays and another, of speculative verse. You can read sample excerpts in the publications O BOD, rivulet, and in 128 Lit.” 

Fragments


“While I was in residence at Writers House Pittsburgh (2022), I appraised notes and fragments of writing from 2015–2016 and braided them into an ongoing reading practice/study of ice as a trope in Romantic-era poetry and colonial medical travelogues. I began working on a loose project. Its themes are leisure, anti-police protest, years preceding a shift in pronoun use, love as a practice, trans*oceanic solidarity. In this project, Dr. Frankenstein’s Creature speaks with theorists Achille Mbembe and Emmanuel Levinas. In this project, tsunami could be the Shelley-esque icefloe, what precedes it, what emerges after a warming of the sea of ethics.

You can read an underpainting the Poetry Project’s Footnotes.” 

More to come...


Chapbooks, essay, micro-fictions, and photo collections are in the works :) 


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