FutureBrownSpace

The project uses the "weave" as a metaphor for how to bind together a heterogenous array of knowledges centered around the experience of browness/blackness in majority white fields/institutions.

Our histories and geographies as mixed/brown/black diasporic artists are dispersed but share in a common cut-off point in a genealogy defined through colonialism and slavery.

The collective work of the weave is to suture past, present and future through an imaginative work of speculation, study and practice in a literary space.

The intent is to knit together our only-ever partial stories of the past erased from the ledgers with possible futures and common presents within white institutions.

The weave is the holding mechanism of a FutureBrownSpace, within which research processes conducted by black/brown artists can be safely facilitated without the presence/pressure of the white gaze.

FutureBrownSpace is a moment of seperation within which to envision a raceless or non-racial artistic and political ontology.In what way will a black/brown only research space impact the process of those within it, as they co-author it?

Within the weaving together of our strands of embodiment, can we re-invent ourselves as artists, and our position within our respective fields? Where does the white gaze hide, in the brown/black experience?