“With a background in anthropology and comparative religion, Kapwani Kiwanga explores subjects like Afrofuturism, the anticolonial struggle and African astronomy. In the performance Afrogalactica Kiwanga takes on the role of a fictional anthropologist which speculates on the future, investigating Afrofuturism to examine the past from an African subjectivity. Her method includes the accumulation of narratives and scientific protocols which builds up towards an alternative way to observe the now and project into the future…”