Traumas, particularly the trauma of or that which is anti Blackness, forces a sexual cut and a healing simultaneously. As blacks facing anti Blackness we must divorce ourselves from certain normalized societal notions of ethnicity, enclave and mother tongue. We are not one. We are, in fact, alien, native, of the diaspora, migrants, immigrants, slaves, enslaved and free. From In the Break by Fred Moten
HOUSE OF BLACK INFINITY is an experimental homeopathic incubator residency designed to grow our awareness and possibilities for wellness and love strategies. We offer shared kitchen, tonic making and porch garden studio space for a limited number of migrants and locals moving through Philadelphia for seasonal stays and introduce them to practices we have established for ourselves.
philadelphians are survivors of residual and cyclical æffects of colonial violence— racial capitalism, enslavement, forced migration, native death, pandemic, state sanctioned sex, drug and war trafficking, and black death. Like the colonial south, up south settlements like philadelphia have shown themselves to be the well planned repositories for continuing social, cultural and economic violence and oppression. The rage, care and persistence we cultivate for our living is our medicine.
What are the values and challenges of Black life passed on to us through our homes and family life— the trans generational dream stuff for imagining other worlds possible? What can we learn about our emotional intelligence and embodied presence from our me/we formations— chosen fam, ancestry, private life, publics, the streets, where we buy from and who we invest in? HOUSE OF BLACK INFINITY uses social practice, interiority studies, and everyday domestic acts to grow our network of care. We are working to reimagine the quotidians of presence, confluence and influence. me/we. said Muhammad Ali. We have abolished the home as a space designed for personal wealth and accumulation. Our goal is create a collectively held home space as culturally, socially and economically central to black wellbeing, nurturing and protection as any home could ever be imagined, whether in times of crisis, peace and transition. We are an incubator for practices of care and sanctuary.
Angela Davis-Johnson
art direction/designer
Arielle Julia Brown
dramaturg/visioning partner
dramaturg/visioning partner
Derek Thompson
media maker/visioning partner
media maker/visioning partner
Gary Smalls
designer/visioning partner
designer/visioning partner
muthi reed
conductor
conductor
Sage Crump
cultural strategist/creative producer
cultural strategist/creative producer
Black Spatial Relics
producing partner
producing partner
National Performance Network
fiscal sponsor
fiscal sponsor
