Similarly, the artists featured in this exhibition ask complex questions via speculative artistic practices and challenge their own mediums to imagine alternate futures.įeaturing work by Nyame Brown, Xandra Ibarra, Shara Mays, Gregory Rick, Stuart Robertson, and Leila Weefur. Set on a foreign planet inhabited by insect-like beings, “Bloodchild” is a coming of age story, raising provocative questions about sex roles, self-sacrifice, colonization, and species-interdepence. Using Butler’s “Bloodchild” story as a lens to look at the art-making today, the exhibition meditates on symbiosis, love, power, and tough choices. In her stories and novels, she projects into the future to investigate possible solutions. Perceived as the mother of Afrofuturism, the genre blending science fiction, fantasy, and history to speculate on liberated future scenarios through a Black lens, Butler wrote cautionary tales. The alien occupants of the planet, also known as ‘Tlics’, are unable to bear their own young as a result, they must use male Terrans as surrogates to host their eggs. Butler’s story titled “Bloodchild,” first published in 1984, this exhibition invites the viewer to investigate the power of speculative fiction to imagine alternative world-buildings and narrative-making strategies. Originally published in 1984, Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild tells the story of an alien planet inhabited by ‘Terrans’ (or humans) who have escaped the disasters facing planet Earth.
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