There is a cosmic vision of Black freedom seen across universes from Seneca Village to Wakanda, exemplified across artistry from Sun Ra to Lil Nas X. Among the culture makers propelling the Afrofuturism movement is Academy Award-winner Hannah Beachler.
films. I spoke to her last year just after she'd tried a little different medium. She curated an Afrofuturism period room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is now a permanent exhibit at the world-famous museum. We're going to kick off 2023 by revisiting my conversation with Hannah Beachler. For you, what is Afrofuturism?I think there's a lot of different definitions. For me, Afrofuturism is a reimagining of history.
In New Orleans, we still have these 100-year-old traditions. I wanted to start there. That's where I remember getting my hair hot-combed, getting the grease behind my ears. People being in the kitchen and cooking and me being on my mom's skirt and the steam coming off of the stove. The conversations and the arguments and my brothers and sisters and I having water fights. The kitchen is really where life happens. I wanted to show that as part of what maybe Seneca Village could be like.
I wanted everyone to have this experience. There's everything inside that room, but you only get to see a little sliver of it. The big thing in the room is the fireplace, which is right in the center.It twirls up into the rafters, which has concentric circles around it. This is our time machine.
They could have come from the Dominican Republican. They could have come from South America. I don't really know this. Anything I learn, every time I learn something, it's like looking into a little window and seeing more, like I'm walking in a cave with a flashlight and occasionally you get something on the wall.
Then I really wanted that you could stand in the very back by the kitchen and look all the way through and you see the time machine, you see Fabiola's dress and then you see this beautiful portrait. That line that it creates through this space from one end to another, from the past to the future. That past is the future. This Black woman is the woman in space that is who I look at the stars every night and see. That's why I wanted that there.
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