Kieron Jina
Theatre-maker, choreographer, educator
Kieron Jina, aka Afrohomo, DJ Kiki Mon Ami is a queer professional troublemaker – multidisciplinary artist, facilitator/researcher of creative processes, and holds a master’s degree in performance art making and choreography from Wits University, Johannesburg. Working primarily in the realms of performance art, visual art, theatre-making and DJing, as well as having a background in film, Jina’s masterpieces include Afrofuturism, sexuality, migration, climate, new technology, Indigenous cultural practices, site-specific performance and interdisciplinary creative practices. Jina is inspired by artistic residencies that lead to performances and art creations across the world. Kieron Jina’s work is a form of rebellion that embraces diversity, creativity, decentralization, horizontality and direct action.
Kieron Jina as participant of the International Forum 2019:
Theatre-maker/choreographer/academic – Johannesburg, South Africa
Kieron Jina specializes in performance art, choreography, photography and video art to tell personal stories that are underpinned by activism and to challenge stereotypes. Jina has an MA in Drama from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Jina was awarded Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans: Arts and Culture, category for performance art. Furthermore, Jina was awarded danceWEB Scholarship at the ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival. Jina has won multiple awards including the Ovation Award for choreography at the National Arts Festival & the Goethe-Institute International Coproduction Fund to create “Down to Earth” at Tanzfabrik Berlin. Jina completed artistic residencies that lead to collaborative performances and art creations in Brazil, Germany, Austria, France, Réunion, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Korea and Switzerland. Jina is the founder and curator of Queer Art Night South Africa and is currently touring with “#FemmeInPublic”, “Down to Earth” and “PINK MON€Y”.
Jina is creating more spaces for art that exists for people of color (POC) and Indigenous performance practices from different African regions. Jina is particularly interested in the challenges and complexities of the transitional millennial generation — a generation that experienced the end and fall of apartheid only to be flung into a country still grappling with its own trauma and healing. Jina studies this dynamic particularly in exploration of the shifting identities of queer people of color, a group that features centrally in Jinas work.
As of: April 2025