Black Temporalities and Black Time

Black Temporalities and Black Time: To fully
engage with Black music we must understand Black
time. We do this work together. In 'Black
Temporalities & Black Time' we will explore
non-linear storytelling and the elasticity of
(un)time through the framework of Terence Nance's
Random Acts of Flyness. The course will also be in
dialogue with creators from Sun Ra to Solange to
Moor Mother to Alice Coltrane and Flying Lotus. We
will center the plentitude of artists that are
pivotal in using time itself as an instrument. We
will analyze film, music, and essays to find a
fluid understanding as well as identify the key
distinctions between Afrofuturism and
Afropresentism. We will spend time meditating on
different vignettes of Black life and analyze the
ways Black artists use and tune our antennae to
code-switch and channel ancestral data. We will
also be engaging with texts such as Dilla Time by
Dan Charnas, Black Space on the Poetics of an Afro
Future by Anaïs Duplan, and Black Utopias by Jayna
Brown. There's a quote from the Black Quantum
Futurism Collective: "Nothing ever becomes real
until it is experienced." Time is not real until
it is experienced. This course is an invitation to
dive into the Black (W)Hole of it all.