Black Quantum Futurism: Community Futures: Space-Time Liberation Lab, Opening Reception
Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023
Time: 6-9PM
Location: The Luminary
Details:
Join us at the Luminary for Black Quantum Futurism: Community Futures: Space-Time Liberation Lab (CF:STL Lab), an Afrofuturist housing and land justice lab.
Black Quantum Futurism (BQF) is a multidisciplinary collaboration between Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips exploring the intersections of futurism, creative media, DIY-aesthetics, and activism in marginalized communities through an alternative temporal lens. This vision and practice derives its facets, tenets, and qualities from quantum physics and Black/African cultural traditions of reality, time, and space.
For Counterpublic 2023, Black Quantum Futurism’s framework Space-Time Liberation (STL) explores tools and mechanisms for how residents and community members of St. Louis can reclaim home, land, space, time, and memory in their neighborhoods, and the pathways for repair and justice that are both forward-reaching and backward-reaching simultaneously—correcting the past and reshaping futures where justice and equity are fundamental and inalienable aspects of our shared reality.
The exhibition features multimedia installation, a self-activated lab with interactive activities, and a temporary convening space-time for housing advocates, artists, organizers, tenants, and other people impacted by housing insecurity and land injustice and/or interested in co-creating strategies to address its impacts, which will be activated in a series of programs held throughout the duration of the exhibition.
