Intelligent Mischief (2025)

27/08/2025

So many different ways to dream at the Futures of Repair social dream space this week!!
Reserve your spot. Which one do you choose?
Wednesday 08.27 // Griots: The Clipse
Thursday 08.28 // Aleem: George Jackson
Friday 08.29 // All About Love
Saturday 08.30 // Restorative House
Sunday 08. 31 // Sunday Lime
Pick your dream state at www.intelligentmischief.com/visit

23/08/2025

Tonight at Futures of Repair social dream space. Come and release, renew, re-imagine.

17/08/2025

What if reparations was spiritual, embodied, and relational?
What if art supported us to cultivate a culture of repair?
We were intentional about inviting artists to create bold, experimental, interactive works of art to anchor the dream space. Art supports us to dream, imagine, feel, and heal. But too often, art is sidelined in the movement for reparations. We know, however that art is essential to cultivating a culture of repair. To helping us make reparations irresistible.
That’s why we’re so honored to host ‘s - A VISUAL MANIFESTO: RITUALS FOR REPAIR - at the dream space.

A Visual Manifesto: Rituals for Repair is a three-part experimental film installation and ceremonial offering rooted in Black feminist cosmologies, ancestral veneration, and the ongoing call for reparations. Projected onto three large black weavings inspired by African American quilting motifs—specifically three variations of the Log Cabin pattern—the films unfold as a multi-sensory manifesto. These weavings serve as sacred grounds, portals, and spiritual armor, holding space for Black femme voices to offer demands and prayers for repair. Each film takes place in a distinct geography—Oakland, California; Tucson, Arizona; and Washington, D.C.—and centers Black women artists, healers, and caretakers as they navigate the intergenerational labor of survival and re-matriation. In this work, “repair” extends beyond policy or capital. It is spiritual, embodied, and relational. It begins with the premise that we must feel safe to repair—and that the power to do so exists within us and our communities.
Visit the Futures of Repair social dream space to interact with the art work and let it support you to dream about the future world that reparations makes possible.

15/08/2025

We have a lot to celebrate. A lot to be thankful for. Today, WE ARE CIVIC MEDIA, the anthology that includes a chapter written by our founder and executive creative director, , is out in the world.

WE ARE CIVIC MEDIA is the most expansive exploration of civic media in our current time, written by the artists, creators, storytellers, organizers, and others working at the intersections of technology, social justice, and culture.

Together, these grassroots practitioners show how contemporary technologies can be used to connect communities, inspire action, build civic capacity, and sustain social change efforts.

Terry Marshall, Intelligent Mischief’s founder/executive creative director is the author of the chapter entitled AFFECTIVE UNDERGROUND and it’s about the hip hop artists and cultural workers who made movements possible.

ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY
Stay tuned for a talk and chapter reading at the Futures of Repair social dream space soon.

13/08/2025

As artists we were craving a space where we could connect with others, explore the big, transformative questions we face as humanity and where art could support us to dream, heal and imagine more boldly. We didn’t want to create a traditional gallery, we wanted it to be a restorative community space. A space where old friends and new friends could feel welcome; a place that they would return to often. A Dream Space.
We’d been nurturing the vision of a social dream space for a while with our friend and collaborator .

We invited to curate interactive artworks with six amazing futurist artists, designers and storytellers. We built six visions of futures where Reparations allowed a culture of repair to flourish. And finally, we’re open and ready to welcome you to dream with us.
We’ll be experimenting with events over the next few weeks and months, that support us to cultivate those future world together.
We can’t wait to see you.

12/08/2025

This weekend we took a trip back to where it all started. The City of Boston. Where Intelligent Mischief was created by Terry back in 2013.
He wanted to create a space for activists and artists, and artist activists, to imagine and innovate new forms of culture and civil society at the intersection of art, culture and social change. Fast forward 12 years and we’re still working at that intersection. Cultivating dream spaces and creating art works that envision more beautiful futures where the bold visions and ideas of our movements and communities have come to fruition.
It has not been at all easy. Straddling many worlds is not for the faint of heart. Standing at the crossroads requires knowing who you are and not necessarily fully belonging in any one place. And it’s a position we know all too well.
It’s easy to feel despair and a sense of futility especially as movement artists. Are we doing enough? Is this work needed? Does anyone understand what we do? It really requires us to put deep faith in our ancestors and our guides. To hone our intuition and leap forward regardless. I’m so glad you all are here on this path with us. I’m glad the art means something .I’m so proud to be building more beautiful worlds with you. Turns out we really, really need it right now. ❤️ ⚡️ 🔥

16/07/2025

Abundant shorelines dreamers!
Allow this to be a soft space for you. A dream space where you can remember / imagine the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
You know that it is possible, right? You know that we just have to imagine it, right? That we just have to embody it. To become it? To breathe life into it? To align our every action and strategy and word and intention with it?
But first, we dream. In palpable detail. There’s a funny thing about we humans. We are oriented towards whatever we imagine/desire/envision. We put our minds in something and we gravitate towards it. We organize ourselves towards it.
Today we are dreaming of a world on the other side of repair. One in which we have built thriving communities rooted in abundance. Close your eyes, bring your attention to your breath and let yourself slip into the dream space.
Imagine / remember what it feels like to be in community rooted in abundance. A community where no one takes more than their share and there is enough for everyone. Rooted. A deep belonging. All of your needs are met. You meet each others needs with grace and love. You acknowledge how deeply intertwined we are. We are all connected and you feel palpably exactly how this is so.
On the other side of repair there is community; there is abundance; there is love.
What does abundance feel like for you? What gifts to you want to offer to a community rooted in abundance?

15/07/2025

Abundant Shorelines.
Abundant Shorelines.
Abundant Shorelines.
Welcome back to the dream space. Space and time to remember/ imagine the more beautiful world your heart knows is possible.
Take a deep breath. Relax. And let yourself slip into that liminal space between wake and sleep. It’s time to dream wild on behalf of your future descendants. On behalf of all those who will inherit the world after we are no longer here.
What if we repaired the harm and remembered that connection, community and culture are what matter most?
Allow yourself to dream of the community you’ve always wanted. Who is there? What are you doing together? What connection do you share. What does it feel like, taste like, sound like, smell like and look like? What binds you to them? What did you do to cultivate this sense of connection?
As you come back from the dream space choose one action you want to take to make your desired community real.
In the comments below, share the community you want, the action you plan to take and the city you live in. Find each other and make it real.
We’re creating a dream space in Brooklyn, NY. An island in these stormy waters for us to dream together, to connect deeply, and to practice the world we so deeply desire.

11/07/2025

Join us for the opening celebration of our Futures of Repair social dream space in collaboration with
Friday, July 25th
7:00pm
RSVP at the
Experience the future world that reparations makes possible.

04/07/2025

What if we repaired the harm and collectively birthed a world beautiful beyond our wildest dreams?

We think of harm as something that cracks, bruises or fragments. As something that creates trauma, fear or anxiety. As something that creates mistrust, separates, and that creates a rift or wound. It divides. As something that interrupts, that distracts, that limits life giving resources. And when harm is not treated it festers, and becomes infected. It compounds and grows and absorbs everything, the entire body is impacted. It can affect others directly and indirectly.

So we learn how to heal. How to repair. How to make things whole. We apply medicine. We convalesce. We remove stagnant blood. We stitch things back together. We remove the infection. We apply care. We respond to the pain. We seek remedies. We apologize. We seek forgiveness. We embrace accountability. We restore wholeness, safety. We nurture. We listen. We promise not to repeat the harm.

Even as we consider our shared purpose in repairing and healing from the harms caused by colonialism, slavery, white supremacy, and genocide and the systems that have been constructed on top of them..we are invited to consider repair as a fractal, repair as a way of being, as a practice, as an act of devotion and creativity, as a sacred responsibility, as something we embody in every part of our lives…

In this collaborative dream space, Intelligent Mischief travels with six artists to explore the futures made possible by Reparations. Looking through the lens of six integral relationships that have been fractured by the harms of colonialism, slavery and white supremacy, and the desires of 120 people participating in six world building sessions, the experience invites you engage with artifacts from the Futures of Repair, to deeply contemplate and embody the practices of repair.

Curators
Intelligent Mischief
Mia Imani Harrison

Collaborating Artists

Creative Producer

Spatial Designer
Mayola Tikaka

03/07/2025

Started on these in Oakland. Now they’re done and I’m losing myself in these worlds. I had repair in my mind while making these preparing for our Futures of Repair social Dreamspace opening soon. It occurred to me, the worlds I’m building are always about repair and healing. Speculative maroon societies, Black utopias, places where Black folks are thriving, sovereign, and free. Spaces where we can breathe and imagine new worlds beyond the terror and tragedy of the world shaped by white supremacy and colonialism. We have to hold on to our dreaming. Our ancestors gave us so much and these fearful and greedy folks are trying to take all of it away. But we have a responsibility to create something more beautiful for our descendants. We have a responsibility to dream and make palpable a future in which they can thrive. I make this art so I can articulate my vision for the future. So we can make that future real.

31/05/2025

What if home is a feeling, taking it with us wherever we might go?
Preparing to leave the Bay Area and everything in me wants to stay. This month long residency was so beautiful, so nourishing. I feel so expanded, so on purpose. Deep deep bows of gratitude to the land, the people, the animals, the trees, the waters, the ancestors and all those who have stewarded these lands and allowed us to find home for a month here.
We belong to you now. And you belong to us too. Thank you.

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