
“The Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga adopts the perspective of a time-traveling anthropologist from the future who looks back on the founding of the United States of Africa and the launch into space of African astronauts by the African Space Agency. In her performance-lecture series AFROGALACTICA, Kiwanga immerses herself in the past in order to search for the future in the lost archives of popular culture, interweaving truth and fiction to unsettle established narratives. Her tools are science-fiction, various kinds of archives, Afrofuturism and anti-colonialism…”