Legacy Russell Recommends

Rasheedah Phillips’s Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time investigates time—how it is made and adhered to and by whom, and how Black communities have long created their own sense of time as a form of resistance. Something to anticipate!

Code Switch marks a historic collaboration between the Schomburg and The Kitchen! This multi-sited exhibition explores and redefines the history of “Black data.” The first of its kind internationally, Code Switch centers and celebrates contributions by artists of African descent to the rapidly advancing field of new media art and digital practice.

This is the first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland for Mujinga, the Congolese-Norwegian artist whose work imagines a post-Anthropocene world.

In this exhibition, self-identified “tech queen” Brathwaite-Shirley transforms the gallery space into a monumental decision-based video game that plunges audience-members-as-players into a speculative universe.

A visionary new film about the fictional Mavis Beacon, who taught millions of people to type on computers in the late nineties/early two thousands via the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing program. This new documentary, brought to you by artist, poet, and doula Olivia McKayla Ross and filmmaker and writer Jazmin Jones, reveals the avatar’s construction as the collaborators search for the model whose likeness became “Mavis”—the real-life Haitian model Renée L’Espérance.