BOOK EVENT: Dismantling the Master’s Clock with Rasheedah Phillips

WHO + WHAT: Join us for an IRL EVENT with author, multidisciplinary artist, and cultural producer, Rasheedah Phillips, as we discuss their "radical new treatise on time", Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time. Rasheedah will be joined in conversation with filmmaker and artist, Cauleen Smith.

WHEN: Thursday, January 30, 2024 @ 7pm PST (Doors at 6:30pm, event starts at 7pm)

WHERE: In-Person at Rep Club in Los Angeles (3054 S. Victoria Ave LA, CA 90016)

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A radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism.

Why do some processes--like aging, birth, and car crashes--occur in only one direction in time, when by the fundamental symmetry of the universe, we should experience time both forward and backward? Our dominant perception of time owes more to Western history and social order than to a fact of nature, argues writer Rasheedah Phillips, delving into Black and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, where the past, present, and future interact in more numerous constellations.

Phillips unfolds the history of time and its legacy of racial oppression, from colonial exploration and the plantation system to the establishment of Daylight Savings. Yet Black communities have long subverted space-time through such tools of resistance as Juneteenth, tenant organizing, ritual, and time travel. What could Black liberation look like if the past were as changeable as the future?

Drawing on philosophy, archival research, quantum physics, and Phillips's own art practice and work on housing policy, Dismantling the Master's Clock expands the horizons of what can be imagined and, ultimately, achieved.

Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing advocate, lawyer, parent, and multidisciplinary artist and cultural producer working through a Black futurist lens. Phillips serves as Director of Housing and Land Justice at PolicyLink, and is the founder of the AfroFuturist Affair, founding member of the Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, and co-creator of the art duo Black Quantum Futurism. Phillips’ work has been featured in the New York Times, The Wire, New York Magazine, Boston Review, Hyperallergic, and e-flux.

Cauleen Smith is a filmmaker and an artist. She was raised in Sacramento, California, and lives in Los Angeles. Smith holds a BA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater Film and Television. Smith’s short films, feature film, an installation, and performance were showcased at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019. Smith has had solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, MassMoCA, and LACMA. Smith is the recipient of the following awards and grants: Rockefeller Media Arts Award, Creative Capital Film/Video, Chicago 3Arts Grant, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Chicago Expo Artadia Award, Rauschenberg Residency, 2016 Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts in Film and Video, 2017 United States Artists Award, 2016 inaugural recipient of the Ellsworth Kelly Award, 2020 recipient of the Studio Museum Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, and 2022 Heinz Award.

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