THE FUTURE WEIRD

[jmjafrx]

da Costa: Daughters plays with this notion of time not as a linear thing, but as something that is interwoven and overlapping—from the grandmother to the mother to the daughter to the daughter’s daughter. Dash: I think people can see now, and people weren’t able to understand before, but it’s sci-fi, it’s a special fiction. And people said, oh, no, it’s a historical film. It’s a meditation—it’s a cinema of ideas and what-ifs and how-sos. It’s a conversation.

Interview: Julie Dash - Film Comment (via jmjafrx)

[communistcoppola-deactivated201]

concept: me waking up to the destruction of the police state and not another black person viciously murdered with video evidence to be easily consumed until the end of time.

[moor-mother-blog]

upcoming mmgz show

[colorthefuture]

alisha b. wormsley

[lordsofsoundandlesserthings-dea]

How do you know I’m real? I’m not real; I’m just like you. You don’t exist in this society; if you did, your people wouldn’t be seeking equal rights. You’re not real; if you were, you’d have some status among the nations of the world. So we’re both myths. I do not come to you as the reality, I come to you as the myth because that’s what black people are, myths… I’m actually a present sent to you by your ancestors.

Sun Ra, Space is the Place (1974)  (via lordsofsoundandlesserthings)

[floresenelatico]

[thefutureweird]

Bea Camacho, Enclose

Single-channel video 11 hours 2005

This video work deals with ideas of isolation, security, shelter and of shaping one’s own environment. The video documents an eleven-hour performance during which I crocheted myself into a cocoon using red yarn. I crocheted continuously without breaks and the video shows the entire performance in real-time.

(source: blue-voids:)

[rpmfm]

DOWNLOAD: THE INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS MIXTAPE

compiled by culturite & @spacendn // a new collab with kimiwan-zine

[decolonizingmedia]

DECOLONIZE THE PRESENT, DECOLONIZE THE FUTURE.

[joeonna-blog-blog]

#WCW Ellen Gallagher @studiomuseum (at The Studio Museum in Harlem)

[thefutureweird]

NGUVA by WANGECHI MUTU (2014)

For her new exhibition Nguva na Nyoka (Sirens and Serpents)at London’s Victoria Miro gallery, Mutu looked to mythologies from Africa and the Arab world, exploring the troubling spirit of mermaids and the abyssal mystery of the sea, where sailors are seduced and annihilated. The accompanying film Nguva, previewed here, opens with an unsettling scream, moving to ghostly images of veiled women on a sandy shore. The artist appears as a hysterical beast whose menacing force slowly dissipates. Through this magical metamorphosis, Mutu creates a surreal landscape between life and death, reality and dreams, the female body transforming into site of geo-political and sexual violence."

Watch the film in full 

[ladyfresh]

Mwangi Hutter. Transference, 2014. Photo diptych, c-print (2), 83 x 125 cm.

[thefutureweird]

I would like to leave behind me the conviction that if we maintain a certain amount of caution and organization we deserve victory. You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

- Thomas Sankara, 1985

[metropolarity]

from the new Metropolarity zine

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[fuckyeahhardfemme]

Sunday Brunch looks

[thefutureweird]

Junglepussy shares pictures of her younger self for Noisey's Scrapbook Series

"This is a picture I took on my MacBook and I Photoshopped it myself, and I feel like I did a damn good job. I did my hair myself this day and I remember I was so proud of it. I’ve never done this hairstyle ever again to this day. But every time I look at this picture I feel so proud of it, like, I accomplished that style. I nailed it. What more can I ask for from my life? I have my leopard shirt. Everything is really 360. I really loved leopard print. This just makes me feel like I’m floating in the clouds and the river at the same time. This was back in like 2008 or 2009 during my black hair phase. Then the red came late 09 until 11, and now I’m blond for life like Mary J. Blige. My mother, my whole life, she was blond. It’s pretty much hereditary except for it’s not DNA."

[westindians]

i-D the future issue no. 136, january 1995

photography by craig mcdean 

stylist edward enninful 

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NARRATIVE INVITES all writers, poets, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers between eighteen and thirty years old, to send us their best work. We’re looking for the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary. We’re looking to encourage and promote the best young authors and artists we can find.

Timing: Entries will be accepted through November 15, 2014, at midnight, Pacific standard time.

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click through to read the rest of the guidelines, they are accepting a variety of stuff including short films, audio, poetry, fiction, spoken word, photo essays etc. 

[brimalandro]

ok but let’s continue to talk about how next level this video janet jackson made 13 years ago was and what a flop the future turned out to be