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Walidah Imarisha & adrienne maree brown & Mumia Abu-Jamal: Decolonizing the Mind

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Afrofuturism mixes sci-fi and social justice. Here’s how it works.

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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

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Afrofuturism: Re-writing the African Narrative | Masi Mbewe | TEDxUniversityofNamibia

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Afrofuturism: From Books to Blockbusters | It’s Lit

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In Family Tree, Mutu presents thirteen portraits arranged as a genealogy of three generations. This ancestral pantheon, with its figures that are at once primitive and futuristic in their combination of human, animal, alien, and mechanical parts, demonstrates Mutu's long-standing interest in transformation and adaptation as a necessary means of survival. Most of the figures in Family Tree include illustrations of organs from old medical journals, relating Western medicine's historical dissections of the human body to the carving up of the African continent under colonialism.

This early work sets the stage for Mutu's ongoing investigation of cultural hybridization and displacement, featuring symbols and strategies that will continue to figure in her subsequent practice. Seeking to complicate notions of racial identity, Mutu used bits and pieces drawn from many ethnicities to assemble the facial features of this creature, whose baldness only adds to her alien quality.

At once beautiful and grotesque, the figure's body is also hard to decipher, with its multicolored patterning reading as skin or a catsuit, or both. The landscape is dotted with mushrooms- fungi that have no roots and flourish in inhospitable areas without sunlight-which can serve as a metaphor for immigration.

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey is the first survey in the United States of this internationally renowned, Brooklyn-based artist. Spanning from the mid-1990s to the present, the exhibition unites more than fifty pieces, including Mutu's signature large-scale collages as well as video works, never-before-seen sketchbook drawings, a site-specific wall drawing, and sculptural installations.

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Mutu scrutinizes globalization by combining found materials, magazine cutouts, sculpture, and painted imagery. Sampling such diverse sources as African traditions, international politics, the fashion industry, pornography, and science fiction, her work explores gender, race, war, colonialism, global consumption, and the exoticization of the black female body. Mutu is best known for spectacular and provocative collages depicting female figures-part human, animal, plant, and machine-in fantastical landscapes that are simultaneously unnerving and alluring, defying easy categorization and identification. Bringing her interconnected ecosystems to life for this exhibition through sculptural installations and videos, Mutu encourages audiences to consider these mythical worlds as places for cultural, psychological, and socio-political exploration and transformation.

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey is organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University by Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator and Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art. The Brooklyn Museum presentation is coordinated by Saisha Grayson, Assistant Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.

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The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.

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Cauleen Smith imagines a Black, feminist utopia

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Sci-Fi Digital Series “Afrofuturism” Sun Ra Part 1 | DUST

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Sci-Fi Digital Series “Afrofuturism” Star Trek's Uhura Part 2 | DUST

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Sci-Fi Digital Series “Afrofuturism” George Clinton Part 3 | DUST

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Sci-Fi Digital Series “Afrofuturism” Jimi Hendrix Part 4 | DUST

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Sci-Fi Digital Series “Afrofuturism” Missy Elliott Part 5 | DUST

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All Stories Matter: The Need for Afro-Futurism | Ramatoulie Bobb | TEDxRoyalCentralSchool

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Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler? - Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey

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Octavia Butler: Science Future, Science Fiction

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Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture]

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Parables of the Sower and Talents podcast

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Parables of the Sower and Talents podcast