Editing Suite 1

The Future Conditional is a series of interactive tactile sound installations. This work centers a series of conversations about black feminist futures and the future conditional, asking “What are the things, often forgotten, that we need to carry with us?” and “What can we now allow to fray and break, and be ok with the brokenness?” 

Various black feminist scholars, artists, family members, and friends have been recording their reflections and are mixed as a 4 channel sound composition that are woven into fabric transducers embedded in hanging quilts. This work takes up The Freedom Quilts as a black feminist archive of ancestral communication guiding our paths towards freedom, encrypting information through culture, building extensive relationships of trust to ensure our survival beyond this world and into the next.  

This work is best experienced with headphones.

The Future Conditional is a series of interactive tactile sound installations. This work centers a series of conversations about black feminist futures and the future conditional, asking “What are the things, often forgotten, that we need to carry with us?” and “What can we now allow to fray and break, and be ok with the brokenness?” 

Various black feminist scholars, artists, family members, and friends have been recording their reflections and are mixed as a 4 channel sound composition that are woven into fabric transducers embedded in hanging quilts. This work takes up The Freedom Quilts as a black feminist archive of ancestral communication guiding our paths towards freedom, encrypting information through culture, building extensive relationships of trust to ensure our survival beyond this world and into the next.  

For the exhibition “Black Gooey Universe” (2018) American Artist made a suite of sculptures about technology. Using dirt, tar, silicone and old smartphone parts, the exhibition set out to convey an alternate realm of technology where the black backdrop of the original command-line interface continued to serve as the blank canvas of digital creation rather than the white backdrop of the the graphical user interface introduced to personal computers in the 1970s.
The sculpture “No State” featured a matrix of hundreds of smartphones with black cracked screens set in a grid on the floor. The title implied that the phones were in no particular state, neither dead nor alive, but in a liminal space of possible usage and value. This video depicts the final stage in the process of creating the sculptural phones where Artist picks up a phone—composed of a recycled phone case, black silicon, and cut window glass—and drops it onto the floor at a particular distance to achieve the desired crack pattern in the glass.