by Tiffany Gloshpert

Water world is a project I started in my room during the pandemic in NYC after the assignation of George Floyd. The idea is to do as Sylvia Winter recommends and create new narratives about what it means to exist as 2-legged talking beings. My idea centers around mermaid myths from the African Diaspora and specifically Haitian Vodou riffing on afro-pessimists claims that Black people aren’t human and displacing the human as the center of the meaning making world. Being autistic/neurodivergent, none of this stuff is just theory to me. I live it as though it were true. I believe it. That’s my praxis.

The idea is to encode theory into non-theoretical approaches and to play stories in order to create an archive through play and stimming. A drop, a water world, that came before and which will exist, after this current anti-Black capitalist crisis.

by Daddypuss Rex

“In Conversation with Grace” is a mixed media, interactive love letter to the indomitable and incomparable Grace Jones as told through an afro-diasporic, ritualistic, blaqueer lens. The immersive experience challenges, provokes and asks the public to engage with notions of (anti) Blackness, white fragility, resistance, resilience and ultimately with celebration of Black joy.

by Kieron Jina

Nomadic

Navigating Untold Stories Unknown Landscapes – Transnational Migration

 Kieron Jina presents Nomadic in Berlin. The artistic focus of this “professional troublemaker” moves between post-colonial historiography and queer storytelling – always with an activist aspect and in search of empathy and shared experiences. Jina combines costumes and practices with Afro-futurist and cultural clichés to create new perspectives. Jina’s interdisciplinary work includes research, dance, performance, technology, and drag. Jina deliberately involves the audience in their pieces as they energetically roam through culture and history. Nomadic explores ideas related to national borders, being, and belonging in a society. Cultivating healing rituals through various archival stories, sounds, and music. Research-based practices have shown that we can share, heal, and teach our experiences through storytelling methods and the environment we encounter.