Black Quantum Futurism Collective (Rasheedah Phillips + Camae Ayewa)
Curriculum Vitae
Artist-In-Residence, Fellowships, and Commissioned Projects
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Vera List Center Fellowship 2020-2022, Time Zone Protocols by Rasheedah Phillips, Vera List Center for Art and Politics
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Nonlinear Histories & Quantum Futures" interactive communal outdoor stage commission and "Oral Futures Booth," Manifesta 13, Marseille France (2020)
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The Great Bailout, Moor Mother and London Contemporary Orchestra
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Temporal Deprogramming, Institute of Contemporary Art London (2019)
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Moor Mother presents Circuit City, Fringe Arts - High Pressure Fire Service, Philadelphia PA (2019)
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Community Futures Lab Chicago, Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019)
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Black Womxn Temporal Portal, Temple Contemporary Velocity Fund (2018)
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The Future(s) Are Black.Quantum.Womanist Web Residency, Refiguring the Feminist Future curated by Moreshin Allahyari, Akademie Solitude & ZKM (2018)
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HatchLab Grantee, The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture (2018)
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Pew Fellow, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage (2017-19)
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Visual Artist Fellow, Center for Emerging Visual Arts (2017-18)
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TEMPORAL ATONEMENT soundscape, commissioned and released as part of DeepWhiteSound "Composites: Buena Vista" presented in conjunction with the Soundwave ((7)) Biennial (2016)
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TEMPORAL TECHNOLOGIES soundscape, commissioned and released as part of DarkMatters 6 on Afrovisionary/DarkMatters Independent Label (2016)
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A Blade of Grass Fellow, Community Futurisms socially-engaged art project (2016)
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West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange, Artists-in-Residency (2015)
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ANTI-KY-THE/RA sound, zine and extended audio project, commissioned and released on DeepWhiteSound independent label (2015)
Select Performances
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THE COSMIC SYNTHESIS OF SUN RA AND AFROFUTURISM: SISTERS, SOUNDS AND SCIENCE OF AFROFUTURISM—BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM & NONA HENDRYX, Harlem Stage, NY, December 13, 2019
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Prizm Art Fair at Art Basel/Miami Art Week 2019, Miami Fl, December 3, 2019
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Valongo Festival, Sao Pauo Brazil, November 9, 2019
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Project: Time Capsule performative workshop, Alternatives & Futures public programs series, Queens Museum, NY, July 21, 2019
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Circuit City, Fringe Festival High Pressure Fire Service, FringeArts June 20-22, 2019
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Red Bull Music Presents Moor Mother: Red Summer, BRIC Arts Brooklyn, May 9, 2019
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The Temporal Disruptors, NO GUTS, NO GALAXY: Slideshows as part of RAMMΣLLZΣΣ: Racing for Thunder, Red Bull Arts New York, Aug 2018
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Afrocyberfeminismes #6 - Post-futurs et temporalities alternatives, Le Gait Lyrique, Paris France, July 2018
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Black Quantum Futurism MOFO Festival, Australia, Jan 2018
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Project: Time Capsule, Serpentine Gallery Park Nights 2017, London UK, Aug 2017
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Black Quantum Futurism x Geng x Matana Roberts, Live, MOMA PS1 - Come Together Fest, New York, 2017
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Ritual Causality 003 performance, transmediale festival 2017 - ever elusive, Berlin Germany, Feb 2017
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Black Quantum Futurism, Sustaining Our Sounds: Girls Rock Philly 10th Anniversary Gala, Icebox Project Space Philadelphia PA, 2016
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Free for All: Black Quantum Futurism, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA, Oct 2016
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Topical Cream Magazine Pulse Benefit at Artists Space, New York NY, 2016
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BLACK FUTURE MONTH 3016: 4th Annual Afrofuturism Art Exhibit, OCAD University, Toronto ON, Canada, 2016
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Afrofuturism Now! Festival @ WORM Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL, Oct 2015
Exhibitions and Installations
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Manifesta 13 Biennale
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Counter-narrating the Cosmos group exhibition, Israeli Center for Digital Arts
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Selected Video Works, Rituals for Temporal Deprogramming in Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements, curated by The Otolith Group, February 7-15, 2020
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Black Womxn Temporal Portal solo exhibition, Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia PA , Nov. 1-28, 2019
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ANTI-KY-THE/RA digital installation, STRUKTURA. Time online exhibition, The Wrong Biennale for Digital Culture
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Community Futures Lab Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center in "...and other such stories," Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019
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Time Travel Experiments film, Part of the Labryinth - GÖTEBORG INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (GIBCA) 2019
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"All Time is Local", Trainings for the Not-Yet group exhibition and series of trainings, BAK, curated by Jeanne Van Heeswijk, Utrecht Holland, September 14, 2019 - January 2020
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Temporal Disruptors watches + Temporal Library, "The Green Sun" group exhibition, Atelier Gallery, Phila PA, curated by Kristen Neville and Ricky Yanas, Sept 20-Oct 27, 2019
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Black Space Agency Triptych, "Social Justice in the Misinformation Age" group exhibition, Juried by Susan Crile, Freedman Gallery @ Albright College, August 27-October 20, 2019
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"Experimental Time Order" solo exhibition, Western Front, Vancouver CA, September 12-November 13, 2019
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Temporal Deprogramming solo exhibition and programming, Institute of Contemporary Art London, August 10-27, 2019
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Red Bull Red Summer Stage and Film Installation, BRIC Arts NYC, May 9, 2019
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“Part of the Labyrinth” group exhibition, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, Sweden
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"All Time is Local" members exhibition, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia PA, April 22-May 31, 2019
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Temporal Disruptors and Kindred Temporal Library, "Orbits" group exhibition, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago IL, May 11-June 23, 2019
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"Timeless Degrees of Freedom" exhibition, Vox Populi Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, March 2-April 14, 2019
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"At the Edge of the Bush/A Long Walk Into the Unknown" solo exhibition, Squeaky Wheel Buffalo, curated by Ekrem Serdar, Jan 25-April 20 2019
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Quantum Event Map and Temporal Library, "What We Make" group exhibition, Ohio Wesleyan University Ross Art Museum, curated by Erin Fletcher and Ashley Biser, 2018
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Screening of "Experimental Time Order" short film at Alien Time: An Invitation to Time Travel" Symposium, Goldsmiths University, organized by Bridget Crone and Henriette Gunkel, 2018
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Alter-Native Time Portal, Group Exhibition at Philadelphia Museum of Art Perelman Building, PHL Assembled, 2017
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"Community Futurisms: Mapping Memory 001" Solo exhibiton at Kelly Writer's House - Brodsky Gallery, 2017
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"Ritual Causality 002," Black Quantum Futurism Solo Exhibition at Black Oak House Contemporary Gallery, 2016
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"Dismantling the Master Clock 001" mixed media art, Vox Populi Gallery Juried Exhibition "VOX XII: News and Weather", juried by Gordon Hall and Brian Droitcour, Philadelphia PA
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"PTSD" and "Dismantling the Master Clock 001" mixed media art, Octavia’s Attic, curated by Channing Joseph, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2016
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Various pieces, mixed media art, A Government of Times exhibition, curated by le peuple qui manque, Rebuild Foundation, Chicago IL, 2016
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Ritual Causality mixed media art, RECIPROCITY Group Exhibition, West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange, 2015
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Philalalalia Ink & Print exhibition, print media, sculpture, and film installation, Temple Contemporary Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 2015
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Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice, Volume 1" print media, Unveiling Visions: The Alchemy of the Black Imagination, curated by John Jennings and Reynaldo Anderson, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC
Select Artist Lectures, Panels, Workshops, Talks, and Presentations
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Quantum Womanist Futures, Black Space Agency + Communal Temporalities workshop, Manifest Destiny exhibition, Detroit MI,
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"Black Grandmother Paradoxes + Quantum Womanist Futures" workshop, Black Futurism - Black in Design Conference, Harvard University, Boston MA, October 4-6, 2019
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Towards World-Building: Sciences at the End of the World panel presentation, Refiguring the Future conference presented by Eyebeam Institute, Feb. 2019
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Uncovering Women of Color in Time, Place, and History, Panel presentation, presented by Chronicling Resistance, Enabling Resistance, PACSCL, Dec. 2018
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"You Are Now Here" Speculative Geographies panel presentation, Community Mapping and Civic Data Summit, Price Lab at Penn Law Philadelphia PA, Nov 2018
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Black Quantum Futurism: Re-Imagining the City keynote presentation, Social Art Summit, Sheffield, UK, Nov 2018
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"Black Space Agency: Retrofutures of Civil & Star Wars" panel presentation, Out There - 5 talk-bits on War-Futures in Outer Space,UCHRI, Nov 2018
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Beyond Wakanda: The Resurgence of the Contemporary Black Reality & Future, Panelist, BlackStar Film Fest, Aug 2018
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Keynote Speaker, Tuning Speculations V: Vibratory (Ex)changes, The Occulture, Toronto Canada, Nov 2017
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Panelist w/ John Jennings and Catherine Ramirez, Different Tomorrows: Beyond Whiteness Symposium, Nov 2017
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Dismantling the Master's Clock[work Universe], Enter Afrofuturism, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece, Nov 2017
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Keynote Speaker, Sight and Sound Festival 2017 - NonCompliant Futures, Montreal Canada, Sept 2017
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Time, Memory, and Justice in Marginalized Communities workshop, Open Engagement, Chicago IL, April 2017
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Afrofuturism and Black Science Fiction Panel, Yale Black Solidarity Conference 2017, Yale University, New Haven CT, Feb 2017
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Singularities panel, transmediale - ever elusive, Berlin Germany, Feb 2017
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Black Quantum Futurism Artist Talk with The Wire at CTM Festival, Berlin Germany, Feb 2017
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The New Legal Temporalities?:Discipline and Resistance across Domains of Time international conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, Sept 2016
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Quantum Event Mapping and DIY Time Travel presentation, Celebrating Time: 3rd International Conference on Time Perspective, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug 2016
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DIY Timescapes: Black Quantum Futurism and Alternative Temporalities, Portals: History of the Future exhibition, Providence Public Library, Providence RI, 2016
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Justice + Space II Conference, "Dreaming" panel and presentation, PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2016
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Dismantling the Master's Clock paper, TransTemporality Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, Canada
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Future Perfect: Future Imaginaries from the New Right to the Afrofuturist Affair, workshop and screening with filmmaker Daniel Tucker, Slought, Philadelphia PA
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Ritual Causality 001, AUX Performance Space at Vox Populi Gallery
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DIY Time Travel Workshop and Performance, Afrofutures UK, Manchester Digital Library, Manchester, United Kingdom
Select Print and Sound Media
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"Time and Memory Survey" by Rasheedah Phillips in "Black Futures," edited by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham, Penguin Random-House (Dec. 1, 2020)
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Duppy Space-Time x Yard Temporalities, by Rasheedah Phillips, written in parallel with Christopher Udemezue's "Duppy" Session at Recess Arts
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Red Summer Digital Zine by Black Quantum Futurism
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The Nowness of Black Chronopolitical Imaginaries in the Afro/Retrofuture by Rasheedah Phillips in The Funambulist: Politics of Bodies and Space Magazine - Futurisms Issue No. 24, July/August 2019
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Reverse Gentrification of the Future Now: Essay by Rasheedah Phillips, as part of Moor Mother's Circuit City, Fringe Festival Blog
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Activating Retrocurrences and Reverse Time-Bindings in the Quantum Now(s), by Rasheedah Phillips, Squeaky Wheel site and exhibition text for "On the Edge of the Bush//A Long Walk into the Unknown" solo exhibition, Feb. 2019
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Placing Time, Timing Space: Dismantling the Master's Map and Clock by Rasheedah Phillips in The Funambulist: Politics of Bodies and Space Magazine – Cartography and Power Issue 18, July/August 2018
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Dismantling the Master’s Clock: Black Quantum Futurism as a New Afro-Diasporic Time” essay by Rasheedah Phillips and “Futurist Garvey” poem by Camae Ayewa, Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Discontent, edited by John Jennings and Reynaldo Anderson (2018)
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Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late Capitalist, essay on keyword “FUTURE” written by Rasheedah Phillips, book co-edited by Kelly Fritsch and Clare O'Connor (2016)
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Organize Your Own Temporality image and essay by Rasheedah Phillips, Organize Your Own Exhibition Catalogue, edited/curated by Daniel Tucker (Soberscove, 2016)
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Observations on Slave Ships, Time, and Quantum Physics, images and writing in The Funambulist: Politics of Bodies and Space Magazine – Design + Racism Issue 5, May/June 2016
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Black Across Time, Space, and Depth, reflections on Rodney McMillian’s The Black Show exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, published on its NOTES blog
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Space-Time Collapse: From the Congo to the Carolinas, Vol. I, March 2016, The AfroFuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences Books
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Black Quantum Futurism Theory & Practice Vol. 1, March 2015, The AfroFuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences Books
Select Press and Interviews
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Are you thinking about time right now? For ‘Black Futures’ contributor Rasheedah Phillips, it’s a lifelong pursuit. by Cassie Owens, Philadelphia Inquirer (Jan. 1 2021)
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Time Will Tell, by Amanda Carneiro, Afterall Journal, (Dec. 9, 2020)
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“Radical Futurisms: Documentary’s Chronopolitics,” by T.J. Demos,Trigger #2: Uncertainty, FOMU: Photography Museum, 2020
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Join a Reading Group That Imagines a Future Beyond Gentrification, Hyperallergic, Dessane Lopez Cassell (Nov 18 2020)
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Five Philadelphia Projects Connect to Community With Temple Contemporary’s Added Velocity Award, by Logan Cryer, Hyperallergic (Oct 28 2020)
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Ingrid LaFleur in Conversation with Rasheedah Phillips, by Constance Collier-Mercado, Believer Magazine, (October 1, 2020)
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North Philly activist, poet, and musician Moor Mother on her free jazz musical, Afrofuturism, and Patti LaBelle, by Dan DeLuca, The Philadelphia Inquirer (September 30, 2020)
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Ancestral Tech and the Future of the Black Body, by Ras Cutlass, Broken Pencil Magazine (September 23 2020)
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In our language the word for the sea means the ‘spirit that returns’, by Adjoa Armah, Afterall Journal (Sep. 8 2020)
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Black Designers Demand Equity and Justice in the Built Environment, by Dana J. Rice, Hidden City Philadelphia (August 2020)
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Rasheedah Phillips x Moor Mother Invisible Jukebox, The Wire Magazine, Issue 437 (July 2020)
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L'Officiel Art International 2020 - The Warning Issue, Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou (May 24, 2020)
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Recording of March 2019 lecture at Rice University: Liberatory Quantum Womanist Futures + Communal Temporalities, Paracultures Blog, April 2020
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Community Futurisms book review, Industry Dump, April 2020
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The Revolutionary Free Jazz of Irreversible Entanglements, by Zoe Camp, Bandcamp Daily, April 2020
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Nona Hendryx on Paying Tribute to Sun Ra at the Met: 'Afrofuturism Has Always Been', Natalie Weiner, Billboard.com, March 2, 2020
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Added Velocity Awards, ArtBlog
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A look into many futures at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, by Alex Smith, Philly Artblog
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Rasheedah Phillips talks Black Quantum Futurism coming to Harlem Stage, by Jordannah Elizabeth, Amsterdam News December 12, 2019
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How PRIZM Is Helping Artists of Color Get Their Time in the Spotlight, by Nia Groce, Hypebeast, December 6, 2019
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Time FIghters: Black Quantum Futurism at the Chicago Architecture Biennial by Drew Zeiba, Pin-Up Magazine, Fall/Winter 2019-20
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Fugitive Libraries by Shannon Mattern, October 2019
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Moor Mother’s Camae Ayewa imagines the future of liberation in Circuit City, Circuit City Review by Thomas Hagen in WXPN/The Key, June 27, 2019
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Transcendence and Temporality, Black Quantum Futurism’s All Time is Local at Center for Emerging Visual Artists - Review of "All Time is Local" by Alex Smith in ArtBlog Philly, May 31, 2019
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Live: Red Bull Music Academy Presents Moor Mother's Red Summer, by Reginald Duvivier, The Couch Sessions (May 15, 2019)
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Live Review + Gallery: Moor Mother: Red Summer at BRIC (05.09.19), by Edwina Hay, Music Existence (May 10, 2019)
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Decolonizing Time as Healing, by Monica Uszerowicz, Topical Cream Magazine
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Black Quantum Futurism FIELDWORKS short film, directed by A Blade of Grass, October 2018
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Black Futurism and Technologies of Joy, Interview with Clara Herrmann, Akademie Solitude x ZKM, August 2018
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Dismantling the Master Clock: The Philosophy and Music of Philadelphia's Black Quantum Futurism Collective, by Tirhakah Love, Red Bull Academy, May 2018
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Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips Pew Fellows Interview, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, March 2018
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How Musicians Are Using Field Recordings to Capture the Politics of a Place, by Lottie Brazier, Pitchfork, April 2018
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Black History Untold: Future - Rasheedah Phillips, by Sofiya Ballin, Feb 2018
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Crane Arts Exhibit Explores Time & Temporality, by Ian Walker, Temple News, October 2017
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40th anniversary of the Voyager Golden Record, Nick Luscombe with Golden Records, BBC Late Junction, Aug 2017
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NextGen: Black Quantum Futurism Is a Women-Led Incubator Rooted In Black Liberation, by Alisha Acquaye, Okay Africa, July 2017
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Talks // transmediale Ever Elusive: Excursion on ‘Imaginaries, Interventions and Ecologies’ by Candice Nembhard, Berlin Art Link, March 2, 2017
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Moor Mother, Fetish Bones album review, by Richard Foster. The Quietus, December 8, 2016
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Items Tagged Philadelphia: Poetry, prose and making the world better through sound, The Key/WXPN, February 3, 2017
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Bharatanatyam, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Afrofuturism Articulate with Jim Cotter. WHYY, June 30, 2016
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An Afrofuturist Community Center Targets Gentrification by Hyunjee Nicole Kim. Hyperallergic, June 22, 2016
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Race Against Time: A North Philly artist aims to document her disappearing community by Melissa Simpson. PhillyVoice, June 16, 2016
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TEARS INTO FLAMES: BGD MUSIC OF THE MONTH FEATURING CAMAE AYEWA OF MOOR MOTHER by Victoria Ruiz. Black Girl Dangerous, June 10, 2016
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This time-traveling sci-fi writer is not your average public interest attorney by Tony Abraham. Genoricty, May 10, 2016
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Meet Camae Defstar, The Philly Activist Channelling Her City's Pain Through Music, by Laurent Fintoni. The Fader, December 18, 2015
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Honors and Awards
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Girls Rock Philly Inaugural PhillyRising Award
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Geekadelphia Impact Org of the Year Award
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Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance (for Greater Philadelphia) Award