For “FUTURISM” as an issue, we’ve endeavored to take a story we think we know and make it into a story that teaches us something new. For many, “futurism” is utopian yet, as we deliver this issue out of the pandemic, urgent questions arise about consciousness and who we will become: Will we tolerate the structural and economic inequalities thrown into sharp relief that plague us currently?
For “FUTURISM” as an issue, we’ve endeavored to take a story we think we know and make it into a story that teaches us something new. For many, “futurism” is utopian yet, as we deliver this issue out of the pandemic, urgent questions arise about consciousness and who we will become: Will we tolerate the structural and economic inequalities thrown into sharp relief that plague us currently?
Jess Cochrane is kissing the past goodbye.
You can either get stuck in the past or move forward with the future.” She asserts, perched in front of her latest work. The eyes of the woman in the photograph stare down at us with warmth and resolve, circled with rose-hued strokes; tinted drips of paint trickle down her cheeks, warping her features.
The originator of therapeutic sound practice Biofield Tuning discusses the electrical energy fields within us and in our environment; how we hold trauma in the body; and the future of healing.
Pioneer of French Hip Hop, Bintou Dembélé made her Paris Opera debut in 2019 as the first Black woman choreographerand first Black French choreographer to be engaged by the company in its 350-year history.
The climate justice and indiginous rights activist discusses trusting the earth; the value of speaking one’s truth;
and the fight to preserve an inhabitable world for the next generation.
Award-winning director WENDY MORGAN met the 24 year old Congolese-Belgian artist LOUSITA CASH on “Dilemme,” her debut music video.
“To work with Lous is to receive an eternal impression of her intensity, her multiplicity, her beautiful character. Nothing about her music, her poetic lyrics,
or her approach to fashion feels recycled or nostalgic.
She is the future,” says Wendy
We met with Van Herpen before the pandemic to discuss her recent collection Sensory Seas; and then circled back to get her visionary perspective on the crisis
Lillard’s collages are vividly illusory, and yet there is also an uncanny realism to them, blending imagery that is distinctly retro with narratives that suggest an alternate reality.
