textiles, conductive thread, microcontrollers, sound, video, database (2023)
This work is currently in progress and has been supported by Culture Hub LA.
The Future Conditional is a series of networked sound installations using interactive textiles and Black diasporic pattern making. It takes its name from Tina Campt’s evocation of Black Feminist futurity as a conditional practice, “a performance of a future that hasn’t happened yet but must.” This work stays with the tensions of the archive and the database, as both evidence of past violence and their impossibility to express what lives beyond asking, “What are the things, often forgotten, that we need to carry with us?” and “What can we now allow to fray and break, and be ok with the brokenness?”