Conjuring #1

(she/ they) is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. She is/ they are the author of several books, most recently Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals and the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust, an intergenerational experiential living library of Black LBGTQ brilliance.

is an Alabama-raised, Ex-American rhythm-analyst, writer and representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign. As Speaker Music, he channels the African American modernist tradition of rhythm and soul music as an intellectual site and sound of generational trauma, bursting through the frames of Western music and thought. His written work explores the links between the Black experience in industrialized labor systems and Black innovation in electronic music.

is a Black owned and operated spiritual apothecary specializing in tools that specifically align with the practices of Black American people.

is an artist and writer, also known as DJ/rupture. Clayton uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on how sound, memory, and public space interact, with an emphasis on low-income communities and non-Western geographies. He is the author of Uproot: Travels in 21st Century Music and Digital Culture and was awarded a 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant to support Behold the Monkey, his upcoming book on contemporary art, faith, and social media.

is an animal, stutterer, and artist. He was raised by Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants in Tidewater, VA, where he prays, gardens, and resides among the egrets and asters. Through music, literature, performance, and video he researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. He dreams of building a sonic bath house!

is an artist and musician currently located in New York and Berlin. His music contrasts the reality of our world with what’s beyond, and explores questions of movement, migration, alienation and belonging. Fofana’s overlapping interests in history and the present, and his practice of transmuting text into the active medium of sound, manifests in multisensory live performances and installations featuring original music compositions, eld recordings and archival material. Lamin Fofana is based in New York City.

has produced images of unique moments in the cultural history of the US and the African Diaspora. While serving as the photographer for the US delegation of FESTAC ’77, Nance made one of the most comprehensive photographic accounts of this landmark Pan African festival of arts and culture. Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos published in 2022 is a focused study of Nance through an archival encounter with her documentation FESTAC.

is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker of Kenyan-Liberian-American heritage. She explores hybridity within the African Diaspora and the liberatory and regenerative potential of gesture and softness. Still and moving images, the voice and body, language, objects, space and sound are all forms to explore practices of re-imagining the self, identity, and culture through abstraction & poetics. Kawinzi is based in Brooklyn.

(they/she) is a guerrilla theorist and curator whose work explores love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris. Having dreamt themselves into the world via the Internet from an early age, Neema investigates digital Africanity through work that spans public lectures, performance, travel, community organizing, and image-making. Presentism2020 is the manifestation of a series of ongoing theories, projects and relationships birthed along the way: afropresentism, radical love, #divestfrominstagram, reindigenization, and data::healing. Githere is based in Brooklyn.

(she/her) is a Black genderqueer and neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist from Brooklyn, New York. As a self-taught singer, RaFia Santana discovered the wellness benefit of respiratory kinematics through vocalization. RaFia Santana’s music emulates breathing and rumination as she uses it to soothe the stress of existing in an antiblack, ableist world. Her echolalia turns to chants, choruses, and background vocals. RaFia seeks to provide herself with excitement, serenity, and relief.

(she/her) a performer of sorts. She is a blaqlatina from occupied Lenape lands called New York, NY: the illegitimate EEUU. Another spacetimemattering/materialdiscusive (dis) continuity: [a n o t h e r a r c h i p e l a g o] the Caribbean>the Greater Antilles>Hispañola>the Dominican Republic [a n o t h e r a r c h i p e l a g o] Corona> Queens>Brooklyn>Lenapehoking She stays playin, showing work at the Little Island, Performance Space New York, Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Wendy’s Subway and The Knockdown Center.

(she/her) Phipps’ books include Mind Honey (Autonomedia), Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire (BlazeVOX [books]), and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press). She has received awards from the NYFA, the National Theater Translation Fund, and others. Phipps has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions as a founding member of Yara Arts Group, and has curated reading series at the Poetry Project. She is based in Brooklyn.

started dancing at the age of nine and turned to contemporary dance in 2007 when she studied choreography at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine (CNDC) in Angers. To this she added a master’s degree in modern literature from the Sorbonne, which becomes visible in her work firmly rooted in dramaturgy. Tchomanga was born on the French Atlantic coast and is the daughter of a Cameroonian father and a French mother.

(1957–2006) was born in Lawrence, Kansas to a Chemehuevi father and an Anishinabe mother. She moved to New York in the 1970s where she became active in the poetry scene of the Lower East Side. She was a founding poet of the Nuyorican Poets Café, a frequent performer at the Bowery Poetry Club and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, and published a book of poems entitled Riding the One-Eyed Ford (1981), illustrated with her pen and ink drawings. In her direct, wry poems, Burns engages themes of Native American identity and stereotypes. She lived in New York City until her death.

(she/her) is a journey-based artist and educator who paints, weaves, dyes, writes, and composts her lived reality into installations, public artworks, and intercultural, generational, and geographical collaborations. Central to her work are the building of relationships with people and places through slow and critical reflection, and the uplifting of feeling, sensuality, and beauty. She is interested in how storytelling and working with our hands deepens our relationships to what we experience, with whom we connect, and how we live.

is an artist and straddles the adjacent and often separate realms of fine art, design and beauty industry by crafting his instantly recognizable nail art. He has recently been featured in the Vogue World 100, Paper Magazine 100, Milk 10, and numerous other publications. Alvear was born in New York City and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC.

(1936, 2002) is one of the most widely-published and highly-acclaimed Jamaican American writers of her generation, poet, playwright and essayist June Jordan as known for her fierce commitment to human rights and political activism. Jordan engaged the fundamental struggles of her era: for civil rights, women’s rights, and sexual freedom. Jordan was passionate about using Black English in her writing and poetry, teaching others to treat it as its own language and an important outlet for expressing Black culture.

is a multimedia artist whose practice extends across media, including painting, performance, murals, zines, and nightlife spaces. Johnson-Ricks’ explores fellowship, engaging acts of fiction and poetry to capture moments with kith and kin that feel loving. He asks himself what it means to make a family, community, friendship, when the world is so precarious, when the water rises, when death comes, and when all that is visible is capital. Ricks lives in New York City.