From the multiple displacements of race and gender, enter The BLACK City Astrolabe, a space-time field comprised of a 3D map and a 24-hour cycle of narratives that reorder the forces of subjugation, devaluation, and displacement through the spaces and events of African diasporic women. The diaspora map traces the flows of descendants of Africa (whether voluntary or forced) atop the visible tension between the mathematical regularity of meridians of longitude and the biases of international date lines.

In this moment we are running out of time. The meridians and timeline decades are indexed to an infinite conical projection metered in decades. It structures both the diaspora map and timeline, and serves as a threshold to project future structures and events. The BLACK City Astrolabe is a vehicle to proactively contemplate things that have happened, that are happening, and that will happen. Yesterday, a ‘Black’ woman went to the future, and here she is.

J. Yolande Daniels (New York, USA, 1962) lives in Boston and works in Boston, New York and Los Angeles, USA.

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