SPECULATIONS: Science Fiction, Chronopolitics, & Social Change

Equal parts performance, conversation, and screening, SPECULATIONS explores the role that science fiction and other modes of imagining the future and re-imagining the past have to play in creating real social change. SPECULATIONS was the culminating event of Urban Video Project's year-long curatorial exploration of Afrofuturism, "CELESTIAL NAVIGATION: a year into the afro future."

PROGRAM:

PART 1 can be viewed at: https://vimeo.com/uvp/speculations-pt1

Spoken word performance by RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS with A/V by CAMAE DEFSTAR

PART 2 can be viewed at: https://vimeo.com/127657286

Artist talk by Light Work's 2014 artist-in-residence, CAULEEN SMITH

A special screening of Smith's new piece, CROW REQUIEM, with improvised accompaniment by musician, composer, and ethnomusicologist, DR. JAMES GORDON WILLIAMS

PART 3 can be viewed at: https://vimeo.com/129826371

A round table conversation with Smith, Williams, and Phillips moderated by Anneka Herre, Director of UVP, and scholars TIFFANY BARBER and JEROME DENT, whose work explores Afrofuturism and its critique.