Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Annotating “Wayward Sentences”
In the Spring of 2024, alongside assistant teacher Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab, I taught “Wayward Sentences” at the School for Poetic Computation. This class explored our relationship to writing, reading, designing, and publishing constraints through collaborative play, lectures, and weekly prompts in code and writing. Through an oral and live annotation of the course, Rasheed will recount the curiosities that bubbled up while facilitating this class. Rasheed will discuss how teaching, a relational practice, also guides her approach to design which is often in collaboration with partners across species, living/death binary, and planes.
About Kameelah Janan Rasheed
A learner, Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores writing practices across all species, states of living, states of consciousness, and substrates. Curious about the poetics and possibilities of loss, ruin, and failure in the reading and writing process, Rasheed is interested in Black knowledge production and fugitivity. She creates sprawling, “architecturally-scaled” installations; public installations; publications; prints; performances; performance scores; poems; video; and other forms yet to be determined. She is an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union and Barnard College, a Critic at Yale School of Art, Sculpture, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. Rasheed founded Orange Tangent Study, a consulting business that provides artist microgrants and supports individuals and institutions in designing expansive and liberatory learning experiences.