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Episode 8 Jhani Randhawa

On Time, Language & The Body

Jhani Randhawa is a non-binary Kenyan-Punjabi/Anglo-American collaborator, multidisciplinary maker, and project coordinator based between the UK and the US. Their work is interested in anticolonial methodologies, grief-work, fugue states, and formations of friendship across species and consciousness. Author of Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022), which won the 2023 California Book Award for Poetry, and co-founding editor of the experimental arts project rivulet, Jhani has studied at Sarah Lawrence College, the California Institute of Integral Studies, Upaya Zen Center and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, and has participated in artist and focus residencies at Blue Mountain Center, Writers House Pittsburgh, Millay Arts, and the Wormfarm Institute. Their performative and literary work has been presented or is forthcoming in A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Lit Collection (de-Canon/Fonograf Editions, 2024), 128 Lit, O BOD, Soap Ear, ASAP/J, bæst journal, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Thymele Arts (Los Angeles, CA), and ONE Archives at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA), among others. Finalist for a PEN Emerging Writers Fellowship and a UNESCO Youth Grant, Jhani is the recipient of a Yasmin Fellowship. Currently in graduate studies at SOAS, University of London, Jhani is also a member of the May We Gather collective, a project of commemoration and healing by and for Asian American Buddhists and their spiritual friends.

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