Black Quantum Futurism – “Write No History” (2021)
Programme:
Date: Friday, 5. September, 13:00-14:30
Venue: ifk arkaden
Free Entry!
Write No History is a short, speculative three-panel film featuring found and archival footage of The Temporal Disruptors, members of an ancient Secret Society of Black scientists, healers,and writers. spread out across time in the relative past/present/future at one of their meeting lodges, the Hatfield House in Philadelphia, performing quantum time capsule burying and unearthing rituals to transport quantum time capsules containing tools, maps, clocks, and codes as technologies to hack colonized timelines.
Write No History originally debuted as part of “Ancestors returning again / this time only to themselves,” a site-specific art installation by Black Quantum Futurism at the Hatfield House of Fairmount Park Conservancy and curated by PastPresent Projects.
Directed and produced by Black Quantum Futurism and shot by filmmaker Bob Sweeney. Featured Temporal Disruptors include: Dominque Matti, Iresha Picot, Marcelline Mandeng, Vernon Jordan III, Angel Edwards, Vitche-Boul Ra, Sheena Clay, Camae Ayewa, Alex Farr, Rodnie King, and Riot Dent.
Many thanks to CIVA Festival for the cooperation!