Events sponsored by Hayti Heritage Center and SLIPPAGE:Performance|Culture|Technology with support from the Duke Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke Dance program.
Saturday, May 19, 2018
21c Museum Hotel, 4th Floor Gallery
10:00am – 1:00 pm Interfaces: AfroFuturism + Performance + Technology
Join cutting-edge artists working through questions of performance and technology and varied relationships to AfroFuturism in their practices and creative production. Lightning artist talks and conversation wind through examples of tending to AfroFuturist possibilities in artmaking and performance.
Contributors:
Kenyatta McLean
Ekene Ijeoma
Angel Iset Dozier
Eto Otitigbe
Andre M. Zachary
Quran Karriem
Thomas F. DeFrantz/SLIPPAGE
5:30 – 7:30pm Building Wakanda: Afro+Futures of Durham+Beyond
Join a group of artists, community planners, environmental activists, scholars, researchers, and afrofuturist-leaning people as we collectively conjure AfroFutures of Durham and beyond. Building off Durham’s heritage as the site of one of the United States’ largest plantations, site of the largest Confederate surrender of the Civil War, and its later emergence as the most prosperous Black cities – nicknamed Black Wall Street – we envisage future spaces and places of Black Excellence. Using Durham’s Hayti neighborhood as a touchstone, a place that Booker T. Washington once called “The Black City of Cities” and which E. Franklin Frazier called “The capital of the Black Middle Class,” we ask: What are the future potentials for Durham as a site of engaged Black life? If we engage a radical care toward an AfroFuture that encourages Black excellence, what could Durham feel like and sound like? Speculative conversations will explore the possibilities of intentional creativity toward a vibrant AfroFuture brimming with Black creativity in the Durham of 2068 and beyond!
Participants to include
Kenyatta McLean
Ekene Ijeoma
Angel Iset
Eto Otitigbe
Andre M. Zachary
Extra Terrestrial Projects
Justin Robinson
Thomas F. DeFrantz/SLIPPAGE
