BLACK
Cite; Sight– Site
Afro-Futures + Ubuntu Infrastructures
September 1 – September 9 2025
Reclaiming Space, Memory, and Futures
Black: Cite; Sight– Site is a layered, transnational exhibition and conference launching Fall 2025 in São Paulo, Brazil before journeying to Dar es Salaam, Chicago, London, and New York in 2026, linking these cities as vital nodes in global Afro-diasporic cultural production. The project convenes artists, theorists, and community leaders to explore Black life as a generative infrastructure of autonomy, memory, relation, and sustainability.
Immersive Art
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Collective Memory-Making
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Cultural Transformation
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Immersive Art 〰️ Collective Memory-Making 〰️ Cultural Transformation 〰️
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Programming
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These events map São Paulo as an Afro-diasporic palimpsest, uncovering layers of history and migration to reimagine the city as an archive of Black autonomy and creativity.
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Focused on Black placemaking, these events explore how Afro-diasporic communities transform urban spaces into sites of belonging and resistance, blending memory, movement, and creativity.
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Anchored by an exhibit in dialogue with the Biennale, these events immerse visitors in São Paulo’s dynamic Afro-diasporic spaces, fostering transformative engagements with the city and its people.
A Vision Rooted in Collective Power
At the heart of Black: Cite; Sight– Site is a commitment to honoring the continuity and creativity of Afro-diasporic life. Grounded in the principles of Ubuntu’s relationality, quilombismo’s legacy of autonomy, and AbdulMaliq Simone’s notion of “people as infrastructure,” the project activates São Paulo as a vibrant site of worlding from below.
Through deep collaboration with Afro-diasporic communities, we engage local practices of reclamation and transformation as integral to a global dialogue on art, memory, and collective becoming. By weaving together local histories with transnational currents of Black cultural production, Black: Cite; Sight– Site cultivates a shared vision of place—where ancestral memory and creative innovation shape new possibilities for the world we make together.