Rasheedah Phillips/Black Quantum Futurism
Co-sponsored by Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Rasheedah Phillips is a queer Philadelphia-based public interest attorney, mother, interdisciplinary artist, and Black Futurist cultural producer whose writing has appeared in Keywords for Radicals, Temple Political and Civil Right Journal, The Funambulist Magazine, Recess Arts, and more. She is the founder of The AfroFuturist Affair, a founding member of Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, co-founder of Black Quantum Futurism, and co-creator of Community Futures Lab. She is a social justice advocate, a 2016 graduate of Shriver Center’s Racial Justice Institute, and a 2018 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity. As part of BQF Collective and as a solo artist, Phillips has been A Blade of Grass and Velocity Fund Fellow, and has exhibited, presented, been in residence, and performed at Institute of Contemporary Art London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Serpentine Gallery, Red Bull Arts, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Akademie Solitude, and more. Her exhibition Black Quantum Futurism: Time Zone Protocols–the culmination of her Vera List Center for Art and Politics Fellowship at The New School– will be on view in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery from April 4-18, complemented by Prime Meridien Unconference on April 15-17, which explores the creation of written and unwritten political and social agreements, protocols, and rules that underlie Westernized time constructs. Black Quantum Futurism’s recent awards include a 2022 Creative Capital Award and 2021 Knight Foundation New Art and Technology Fellowship; their work will be featured in the 2022 documenta 15 exhibition in Kassel, Germany this summer.
