Between The Two My Heart Is Balanced (1991),Lubaina Himid

Between the Two my Heart is Balanced (1991), Lubaina Himid

“In the future, the past and future are not cut off from the present. Both dimensions influence the whole of our lives, who we are and who we become at any particular point in space-time. In this future, we have dismantled oppressive, hegemonic temporalities and timelines and developed, recovered, and synthesized healthy alternative temporal dynamics in our communities and the world.

We see this work as cyclical, ongoing, dynamic, generative, and generations-long.  We project a vision of our shared future(s) where we have actively begun to address how future(s) are made inaccessible to marginalized communities in general and Black people in particular. We have developed positive futurity concepts and sustainable technologies of joy that benefit low-income, vulnerable, and marginalized communities. We see ‘in the future’  an active engagement with temporalities and alternative temporal orientations -  to quote Rifkin, ‘the new time rebels advocate a radically different approach to temporality.’”

The Temporal Disruptors Digital Collage (2018), Black Quantum Futurism

(imagery inspiration, connection)

“Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.”