Black Quantum Futurism (BQF), the radical Philadelphia-based collaboration of musician and poet Camae Ayewa (AKA Moor Mother) and writer and activist Rasheedah Phillips,perform in Australian for the first time.

As BQF Ayewa and Phillips mobilise the revolutionary potential of Afrofuturist thought to manipulate and reorient perceptions of the past and present in ways that make alternative futures imaginable. Their vision derives its facets, tenets, and urgency from science-fiction, futurist traditions, and Black/African cultural traditions of consciousness, time, and space. BQF’s work incorporates workshops, radical pedagogy, community activism, DIY art practice, writing and experimental music.

For this performance, Ayewa and Phillips will use Afrofuturism and science fiction to experiment with time travel via memory, imagination, music, language manipulation and crystals.