i could see if it was a African American Post Modern museum but a historical museum, absolutely disgusting
Afrofuturism has been around for a while. Even though the “term” wasn’t coined until the 90s, the aesthetic and the idea had been around going back to the 70s and 60s. Especially in music. Music collectives and bands like Parliament-Funkadelic are prime examples.Tf is Afrofuturism and extraterrestrial visioning??
internet making up terms and lingos to sound phenomenally cultural when they’re not in the culture. Dr. Welsing, Khalid and Malcolm would never.
The honorable minister speaking on this rn
Tf is Afrofuturism and extraterrestrial visioning??
LMFAO you can't make this shyt up!In Atlantica, The Gilda Region, April Bey’s first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles, the Bahamian-American interdisciplinary artist presents an immersive installation that taps into Black Americans’ historical embrace of space travel and extraterrestrial visioning—a cultural movement dating back to the late 1960s and later termed Afrofuturism. Through this Afrofuturist lens, Bey reflects on subjects such as queerness, feminism, and internet culture in vibrant tableaux that combine living plants, video, music, photography, and oversized mixed-media paintings and textiles. The artist positions herself as an alien from the planet Atlantica, while her mission on Earth is to observe and report as an undercover agent. This imagined world and her general interest in storytelling come from her father, who would tell her childhood tales using alien narratives to illustrate how Black people were othered in the United States and The Bahamas. In contrast to the racial oppression and exploitation rampant on Earth, Atlantica offers a beautiful diasporic world in which Black people thrive and flourish.
SMH not surprised in the least b
Art submission by April Bey -The LA-lbghtfd Museum
Do y’all see this?
Afrofuturism imagery has been around for a while. The Jackson’s “Can You Feel It” is Afrofuturism.
Also, Sun Ra’s “Space is the Place”.
Not sure what Afrofuturism has to do with this exhibit though.
Tf is Afrofuturism