Intelligent Mischief

25/07/2024

Eye ‘em free. No matter what anyone says or does. Imagine freedom and then seize it by any means necessary.
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28/05/2024

What if we fully disrupted every apparatus of genocide?

28/05/2024

Just spent the last month in Santa Fe at the and capped our experience off by installing two murals! Where should we go next! Find us a wall and we’re there!

11/02/2024

We have not just one but two juicy events coming up next week!

First up, on Friday the 23rd we invite you to come over to our place in Bushwick for a little Collage & Kiki with our friends at . We’ll be screening The Sun Rises in The East by and chatting about building Black Cultural Power in NYC and cultivating the creative community of our dreams. Snacks and materials will be provided.

Secondly, on Saturday the 24th we’ll be hosting our monthly virtual IMaginal Space for members of our Secret Society. What’s wild is that literally anyone can become a member!
RSVP now. Links where links go.

15/12/2023

Our 2024 Shape The Future Wall Calendars are here! Whether you need a holiday gift for someone or a physical invitation to dream and imagine, these calendars contain 12 of our favorite collages and world building questions from the past year. Get them now in time for the end of year festivities

25/09/2023

Hi beloveds, we’re hiring a bada$$, logistics loving, process wrangling, spreadsheet owning Studio Assistant/Manager to bring some administrative joy to our Brooklyn Studio.
Learn more about the role at the

12/09/2023

What if we shifted our understanding of power, from domination to interdependence?

05/09/2023

What if we cultivated a nurturing economy that meets the needs of individuals and communities?

01/09/2023

Join me and 10 other amazing artists, intellectuals, designers and world builders for Digital Kinship: Redefining Relationality in the Digital Age, the newest course by
Register now using our discount code: INTELLIGENTMISCHIEF

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📣 New Course Alert: "Digital Kinship: Redefining Relationality in the Digital Age"🌍

Set against a backdrop of seismic societal shifts and rooted in Afro-diasporic and Global South perspectives, this unique interdisciplinary program delves into the complex tapestry of power dynamics, artificial intelligence, and human (and more than human) connection.

Digital Kinship assembles 10 master practitioners of African descent from diverse fields, including technology, academia, arts, and civil society, over the course of nine weeks. Each week, our expert faculty will guide you through existential challenges and opportunities that are rapidly redefining human and non-human experiences.

Participants will emerge from the course equipped with the knowledge and tools to navigate, influence, and co-create a digital landscape and shared future grounded in our collective wellbeing, agency, and indigenous wisdoms.

Together, we'll learn how we can build a life-affirming future with technology, where it serves as a catalyst for justice, equity, and transformative change.

👉🏾 digital-kinship.com

Use the code EARLYBIRD for a 25% discount on your enrollment

01/09/2023

Join me and 10 other artists, designers, intellectuals and world builders for DIGITAL KINSHIP: REDEFINING RELATIONALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE.
Follow for details and use our discount code INTELLIGENTMISCHIEF when you register.

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📣 New Course Alert: "Digital Kinship: Redefining Relationality in the Digital Age"🌍

Set against a backdrop of seismic societal shifts and rooted in Afro-diasporic and Global South perspectives, this unique interdisciplinary program delves into the complex tapestry of power dynamics, artificial intelligence, and human (and more than human) connection.

Digital Kinship assembles 10 master practitioners of African descent from diverse fields, including technology, academia, arts, and civil society, over the course of nine weeks. Each week, our expert faculty will guide you through existential challenges and opportunities that are rapidly redefining human and non-human experiences.

Participants will emerge from the course equipped with the knowledge and tools to navigate, influence, and co-create a digital landscape and shared future grounded in our collective wellbeing, agency, and indigenous wisdoms.

Together, we'll learn how we can build a life-affirming future with technology, where it serves as a catalyst for justice, equity, and transformative change.

👉🏾 digital-kinship.com

Use the code EARLYBIRD for a 25% discount on your enrollment

31/08/2023

What if we built communities for rest, repair, nourishment and action?

31/08/2023

What if we moved through the shame and allowed ourselves to practice the accountability so necessary for mutuality and interdependence?

30/08/2023

Check out this awesome article in YES Magazine written by our Artistic Director .
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New Murmurations Column: Black Imagination Can Build A Better World from - get some brilliant black genius vision medicine! link in stories and bios 🥰

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/08/29/black-imagination-murmurations

27/08/2023

An Artist, A Healer and a Trickster walk through a portal. Their powers combined…

22/08/2023

What if we hoped for the realization of our own dreams?
We are so obsessed with Black dreaming. So much so that we want to create more space for dreaming. Watch this space for more space to dream coming soon.

19/05/2023

What if we approached healing as an act of communion?

What does it look like for you to heal together with others? How can our society support you to heal? What might flourish when we prioritize collective healing; including healing the land?

29/04/2023

What if we normalized healing and mediation as a core skill within our communities?

27/04/2023

What if we learned to hold the responsibility of decision making and collective governance from a young age?
Without fail, everytime we ask what decision-making and governance looks like in a future that centers love, regeneraiton and interdependence, people always envision intergenerational governance. They emphasize people of all ages, but especially young people, children, involved in making decisions that impact the whole.
How have you experienced intergenerational governance? What might be different if we included children in our collective governance? What might we prioritize? What might we learn from the particular wisdom and perspective of young people? How might we involve young people in decision-making in a way that honors their needs?

24/03/2023

Join our Artistic Director for a conversation: Giving Birth to the Future Beyond Apocalypse: A Dreamspace for Futures of Love, Regeneration, Interdependence, and Abundance

What if we believed in an abundant future and our collective responsibility to steward it? A guided imagining and daydreaming that will invite participants on a journey to a future thriving and abundant world. We will tap into our intuition to experience this future world we know is possible. After this journey we are invited to create from what we have experienced.

Materials folks would need to have: Paint, color pencils, charcoal, pens, paper, collage materials, ipad etc. Anything they need to make art, write poetry etc. Soft blanket and pillow. Comfortable clothing. Quiet space with limited distractions. Tea, water, juice.

This program is a part of Kripalu’s Amplify Voices of the Global Majority centering Food and Environmental Justice summit happening April 17th - 24th. Tune in for heart-centered conversations steeped in wisdom, care, and healing with a truly inspiring lineup of presenters: of , , Tiokasin Ghosthorse , Chef , Ian Sanderson, Antonia Estela Pérez .cura, of Sierra Seeds, Dr. Nazarak Amen , and our regenerative artist in residence of

LINK TO REGISTER: http://bit.ly/3J78Qss

04/03/2023

What if we renewed our spirit as an act of self love that nurtures our growth?
Has anyone else been feeling a strong sense of transition or renewal? We've been feeling a really fast moving energy with projects ending and new projects beginning. Maybe it's because hibernation season is almost over and the equinox is coming soon. Over here that has us feeling nostalgic and reflective and wanting to shift things in our physical environment. We're ready for that new new but also deeply grateful for what we've learned and everyone we've collaborated with these past few months. We're also grateful for the abundnace that has been flowing and for the call for structure to hold all the juiciness.
We're also doing some exploration of patterns and habits that might not be serving us so well and getting ready to re-commit to the practices that we know are essential for the growth we're seeking.
What habits are you feeling called to shed as you emerge from hibernation? What are you wanting to renew in your spirit? What new practices are you wanting to integrate to help shape your embodiment of the future world you desire? What parts of yourself will you expand into with love? In what ways are you desiring to grow?

Art:

28/02/2023

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What’s your most radical dream?

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{IMAGE ID: A collage with a pink and purple gradient background. The focal image is the side view of a Black person wearing rhinestone sunglasses, dark lipstick, a diamond necklace, and a black velvet top, and a cutout of a white feather headpiece is on their head. In the background at the top is the silhouette of an island of conifer trees. Yellow gradient infuses a body of water on the left, as well as a cutout of two Black teenagers with their shirts off and glitter on their heads; one is holding a pot. There are black scribbles in the background. Flower bulbs are standing tall on the right. Text at the bottom of the image reads in all caps: “ARE WE DOING ENOUGH DREAMING?”}

25/02/2023

What if we left a legacy of love for our future descendants?
Do you ever think about being an ancestor and the kind of world we’re leaving behind for future generations? We were honored to be commissioned to create this origin art work for the Solutions Project as part of the 2023 Black Climate Week. This celebration honored the Black Feminist Tradition of Philanthropy. Of creating a legacy of love. Of navigating the system in a way that created more life and more love for Black folks.
We are beneficiaries of this legacy of love. What legacy will we leave? What Earth will our descendants inherit?

12/02/2023

What if we chose to celebrate life?
Sometimes we find ourselves moving so fast that we forget to stop to and soak in the juiciness of all that there is to celebrate about life. Or, we find ourselves fixating a little too much on life’s horrors forgetting that in reality life and love and goodness and decency and beauty requires our attention to prevail.
So we choose to celebrate life. To pause and express gratitude for all the blessings and abundance. To shift our attention ever so slightly to the juicy, so that more of it might flow.
Gratitude to and the team at Apple for the opportunity to be in the zone, doing our most favorite thing, making art. Shout out to all the people who came out and reconnected to their creativity. We beat witness.

02/01/2023

24/11/2022

Many moons ago we received a beautiful call. A call to co-design a series of gatherings that would culminate in a manifesto for a future of beauty and thriving for all Black Womxn. Now that manifesto is available for all to dream, imagine and co-create. Let’s make it real.

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It's here! Our manifesto, Dreaming Flourishing Futures: A Black Womxn’s Manifesto For Designing The Worlds We Must Have To Be Well can now be downloaded and experienced on Gumroad 🎉 Link in bio!

Our manifesto is a luminous, living collection of declarations, visions, and artifacts that affirm the possibilities we want to bloom in every dimension of our lives. Breathing the future into the present, Dreaming Flourishing Futures is our testimony, designing what will be necessary for us to be well.

The digital zine includes intro and breath moments, thematic summaries, affirmations and declarations, artifacts with recipes, rituals and meditations, sacred highlights, and building/design sheets.

Continuous gratitude to all of our collaborators, supporters, and every single person who showed up to our gatherings in 2020. We couldn’t have done it without y’all, and we are truly grateful 💜💫🌸

14/10/2022

DIASPORIC SWEAT 🌐

Line up for ARCHIPELAGO Soundclash is live!!

FRIDAY 10/21 live and streaming on ARCHIPELAGO RADIO .

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SO CALLED “AUSTRALIA”

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Local steppers get tickets at link in bio and bit.ly/ARCHIPELAGO_PARTY

Global Steppers watch live online at ARCHIPELAGO RADIO YOUTUBE
co is excited to curate the ARCHIPELAGO International Soundclash opening night party in partnership with to launch .exp - a three-day Afrofuturist immersive experience conceived by in collaboration with a cohort of leading Afrofuturists, world-builders and cultural leaders.

12/10/2022

Archipelago, our newest immersive experience. Brought to you in collaboration with .co
More info at .exp
Because

19/08/2022

it’s the worldbuilding for me…

24/07/2022

Just dropping this right here. Find it on YouTube. Get ready. We wearing white.

04/07/2022

It’s been a whirlwind and because we don’t believe in multi-tasking we paused a little bit on here to prepare for our time at this past week. Our Artistic Director was on the Emergent Strategy plenary on Friday and then we hosted a beautiful Black Futures Design Cypher on Saturday. Our hearts are full and our bodies are tired. Highlights soon come!
So we’re dropping in real quick to say that today is a great day to commit to the responsibility of imagining beautiful futures for our descendants. We have both a right and responsibility to imagine and do our best to create a world in which they can thrive and be sovereign and free.
We don’t want our descendants to live in the imagined world of the Supreme Court or Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, we want them to live in OUR imagined world. So let Dream wild and then build the power to make those futures real.