“Influenced by earlier studies in anthropology, the work of Kapwani Kiwanga often merges together fiction and historical facts. Using video, sound and performance, Kiwanga produces research-based investigations that revisit history, crafting new stories from subjective perspectives, storytelling, science fiction and popular culture.She is also interested in different approaches to embodiment in art, and for The Institute of Things to Come she presents Afrogalattica: a trilogy project (2011–on-going), where the fictional character of an anthropologist from the future has come back to our time to tell us about the Afronaut Odyssey…”