en/ Black Quantum Futurism presents MirrorTimeMirror, a new three-channel sound installation with text, video, and image accompaniment at Brückenmusik 28 in Cologne, Germany. Situated within the cavernous segments of the Deutzer Brücke, MirrorTimeMirror delves into the shadowy depths of time, sound, echo, and light and the ways these phenomena are modified, reversed, and manipulated in the reflection of a mirror to create an alternate reality that exists in its own temporal-spatial plane, parallel to our own.

Encountering reflections and refractions, distorted and reversed sound waves reminiscent of echoes bouncing off the reflective surfaces, visitors will be able to hear and see glimpses of potential pasts, presents, and futures. MirrorTimeMirror invites us to reflect on our perceptions of time and space by navigating through mirrored time, and to consider the possibilities of what might exist beyond our linear understanding of time.

Black Quantum Futurism is an interdisciplinary creative practice between Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips that weaves quantum physics, Afrofuturism, and Afrodiasporic concepts of time, ritual, text, and sound to create counter-histories and Black Quantum Womanist futures that challenge exclusionary mainstream versions of history and the future. Black Quantum Futurism has created a range of community-based projects, performances, experimental music projects, installations, workshops, books, short films, and zines, including the award-winning Community Futures Lab and the Black Woman Temporal Portal. BQF has presented, exhibited, and performed at documenta fifteen (Kassel, 2022), Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019), Village of Art & Humanities (Philadelphia, 2021), Manifesta 13 (Marseille, 2020), ApexArt NYC (2020), ICA London (2019), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY, 2019), MoMA PS1 (NY, 2017), and more.

Funded by: Kulturamt der Stadt Köln & Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.