FUTURE/PRESENT, Arts in a Changing America

Year

2024

Publisher

Duke University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-47802-725-6

Link

Last Update

21-May-2026

Keywords

Art & Art History ; American Studies ; African American Studies

Description

This book is the resonance of a five-year cultural organizing journey across America.¹ Through words, images, sound, movement, and actions, its contributors speak a collective text that is an echo from within, directions home, instructions from the future, and the whispered wayfinding of ancestors. This text is the weaving forward of deep listening and revelation. It is the joy, fury, and balm of unceded lives, land that remembers, bodies refusing to be mapped. It is the assertion that our future is in our presence now.

The seeds for this book were planted in 2014 when I gathered twelve artists, academics,...