The Substation/ Moor Mother (USA), Rasheedah Phillips/ Black Quantum Futurism/
Full $30 / Concession $20
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The radical Philadelphia-based collaboration Black Quantum Futurism, consisting of musician and poet, Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother and writer and activist Rasheedah Phillips perform for the first time in Australia.
As Black Quantum Futurism, Ayewa and Phillips speak to the violence, trauma and radical political struggles of black history and mobilise the revolutionary potential of Afrofuturist thought to manipulate and reorient perceptions of the past and present in ways that make alternative futures imaginable.
The Moor Mother sound is abrasive; a torrent of noise, free jazz, hip-hop, poetry and punk (or, in her own words, ‘project-housing bop, slaveship punk, witch rap’). The 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’.
Presented by The Substation, Liquid Architecture and Still Nomads in association with MONA FOMA.
Feature image: Moor Mother Video Still, The Substation, 2018, Video supplied by the artist
Gallery images: Moor Mother Video Still, The Substation, 2018, Video supplied by the artist
