Black Quantum Futurism to perform at MACBA in Barcelona
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Black Quantum Futurism, the artistic collective formed by Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips, return to Barcelona to continue their art production at Hangar and their encounters with scientists at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB) and The Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) as part of their Collide residency. On the occasion of their return to the Spanish city, the artists will premiere the performance CPT Simmetry and Violations on 14 December at 7pm at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, MACBA. The performance explores the history of linear time constructions, time travel and notions of the future. Interweaving text, sound and image, Black Quantum Futurism will contrast dominant Western linear time constructions with Afrodiasporic traditions of space, time and black futurist time travel.
On Thursday 9 December at 7pm, the artists will participate in Hangar’s Paratext program, where artists in residence at Hangar present, in different formats, their work to the public. For this occasion Mónica Bello, Head of Arts at CERN, will introduce Black Quantum Futurism who will share part of their artistic research and the audience will have the opportunity interact with the artists. Register for the free event here.
Between September and October 2021, Rasheedah Phillips spent three weeks at CERN and one week in Barcelona to extend their artistic research for their long-term research CPT Symmetry and Violations. In physics, CPT symmetry stands for charge, parity, and time reversal symmetry. The acronym also carries another meaning in the phrase “Coloured People’s Time”. CPT, in that sense, is often used as a negative stereotype to refer to black people as being chronically late. Read more about their artistic research at the Laboratory and their meetings with the scientific communities here.