The Luminary’s Summer Exhibition opens with Black Quantum Futurism, commissioned by Counterpublic 2023

The Luminary’s Summer Exhibition opens with Black Quantum Futurism, commissioned by Counterpublic 2023

Gathering
In-Person

April 15th-July 15th, 2023

The Luminary is pleased to announce its Summer exhibition, in collaboration with Counterpublic 2023 and Black Quantum Futurism: Community Futures: Space-Time Liberation Lab (CF:STL Lab), a three-month-long Afrofuturist housing and land justice lab at The Luminary. 

Black Quantum Futurism (BQF) is a multidisciplinary collaboration between Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips exploring the intersections of futurism, creative media, DIY-aesthetics, and activism in marginalized communities through an alternative temporal lens. This vision and practice derives its facets, tenets, and qualities from quantum physics and Black/African cultural traditions of reality, time, and space. For Counterpublic 2023, Black Quantum Futurism’s framework Space-Time Liberation (STL) explores tools and mechanisms for how residents and community members of St. Louis can reclaim home, land, space, time, and memory in their neighborhoods, and the pathways for repair and justice that are both forward-reaching and backward-reaching simultaneously—correcting the past and reshaping futures where justice and equity are fundamental and inalienable aspects of our shared reality.