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DESCRIPTION:Wed, Jan 19, 2022 to Sat, Mar 19, 2022\nLocation: Mary Porter Sesnon Art 
 Gallery\n\nJust Futures: Black Quantum Futurism, Arthur Jafa, and Martine 
 Syms​\n\nAgainst the present’s seemingly endless backdrop of deep 
 political unrest, environmental emergency, and racialized injustice, Just 
 Futures highlights poignant creative experiments in futurity and justice, 
 directed at emancipatory worlds-to-come. With artworks by Black Quantum 
 Futurism, Arthur Jafa, and Martine Syms, Just Futures considers how time 
 itself is a site of struggle and a horizon of liberation. Far from 
 homogenous, inherently progressive, or equitable, dominant time expresses 
 the 24/7 chronologies of capital, long synchronized to racialized, gendered 
 violence and oppression. The seemingly endless meter of production encloses 
 people in temporal holds, defuturing communities, and imposing time-traps 
 of debt and deadlines.\n\nThe artworks included in Just Futures powerfully 
 reveal and challenge such temporality, including its seeming fixity and 
 policed regimentation. In doing so, they build on the critical resources of 
 Afrofuturisms of decades past—experiments in sonic and visual futurity 
 that draw together Afro-diasporic cultures of creativity and the 
 chronopolitics of coming liberation. Expanding horizons of the possible, 
 the artists presented in Just Futures reveal new singular experiments in 
 time travel. They cultivate space agency that dismantle the “Master's 
 Clock[work Universe]” (Black Quantum Futurism); present a stunning 
 cinematic exploration of African-American image archives opposing police 
 brutality with scenes of freedom dreams and anti-racist struggle (Arthur 
 Jafa); and offer a “Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto” contesting the 
 entire edifice of racial capitalism (Martine Syms). Each inclusion provokes 
 compelling and urgent recalibrations of justice and futurity.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/04/18847111.php
SUMMARY:Just Futures: Black Quantum Futurism, Arthur Jafa, and Martine Syms​
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/04/18847111.php
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