Very excited to announce that I’m a recipient of a $30,000 Arts Writers Grant, in the shortform category. You can find out a bit more about my project here and below:
Rahel Aima will write a linked series of longer experimental essays that considers questions of hue, technology, and materiality in contemporary art. Aima’s research investigates the fleshy politics that undergird the digital realm’s persistent techno-optimism, particularly as they play out in the Global South. Color, in Aima’s writing, becomes a way to think through these lingering politics of race and empire while also considering the humid, sticky petro-derived materiality of our current moment.