For the first time in Australia, radical Philadelphia-based musician and poet Camae Ayewa aka MOOR MOTHER will perform her politically charged Afrofuturist noise, punk and poetry, alongside her Black Quantum Futurism comrade, writer and activist RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS at The SUBSTATION for one show only on Thursday 25 January, following shows at MOFO.

Moor Mother describes her work as ‘‘project-housing bop, slaveship punk, witch rap‘, a noisy sonic torrent experimentally and confrontationally collaged to speak to the violence, trauma and the radical political struggles of black history.

Moor Mother’s album Fetish Bones, released in 2016, is already considered a contemporary masterpiece. Pitchfork described it as ‘a reminder of the hardships of love under the regime of historical trauma’ – an album ‘you will never be able to unhear’, and The Wire was moved to describe Moor Mother as ‘the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years’.

Rasheedah Phillips is a community housing activist, a mother, writer, the creator of The AfroFuturist Affair, the co-creator of Black Quantum Futurism, and a founding member of Metropolarity Queer Sci-Fi collective. In 2014, she published her first speculative fiction collection, Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales), followed by an anthology of experimental essays from Black visionary writers, Black Quantum, Futurism: Theory & Practice Vol 1.

Together Ayewa and Phillips are Black Quantum Futurism, bringing together workshops, radical pedagogy, community activism, writing and experimental music, mobilising the revolutionary potential of Afrofuturist thought to manipulate and reorient perceptions of the past and present in ways that make alternative futures imaginable. Black Quantum Futurism’s vision derives its facets, tenets, and urgency from science-fiction, futurist traditions, and Black/African cultures of consciousness, time, and space.