In the latest episode of the Decolonization in Action podcast, I spoke with Natasha Marin, curator of Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures (2020, McSweeney’s).
In addition to discussing Black Imagination, which was published in 2020 and is in its third printing, Marin emphasizes that the work for Black Imagination is ongoing and is an open invitation to continue to share stories.
Marin continues to collect stories and is currently inviting Diasporic Black folks to share their first experiences on the African continent and continental Africans to share their experiences of going to different countries. Natasha Marin (curator of Black Imagination, 2020 McSweeney’s) is a conceptual artist whose people-centered projects have circled the globe and have been recognized and acknowledged by Art Forum, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, and others. In 2018, Marin manifested BLACK IMAGINATION: The States of Matter, The (g)Listening, and Ritual Objects— triptych of audio-based, conceptual art exhibitions in and around Seattle, WA.