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Relational Possibilities: A Remix of Aesthetic Forms Through Indigeneity and BlacknessMain MenuCommunity ArchiveThe Kindred Blackness Museum, ProjectCuratorial StatementsCreative CoLab Future WorkDana ReijerkerkDana Reijerkerk's BiographykYmberly KeetonDana Reijerkerk019db768bf3830a97fe7e6288c61c1ade502d9bfkYmberly Keeton9362993029ca88c8d3b40345148bb9d36b16c130
Aesthetic Indigenous Forms
1media/flowing-water-black.pngmedia/Postcolonial_Dreams_Museum.gif2023-09-12T07:20:38-07:00Dana Reijerkerk019db768bf3830a97fe7e6288c61c1ade502d9bf4349829visual_path14311522024-02-17T20:06:49-08:00Dana Reijerkerk019db768bf3830a97fe7e6288c61c1ade502d9bfThe Post Colonial Dreams Museum is a digital museum that explores community in the contexts of climate racism, Indigeneity, and climate change through Philadelphia’s Black public art, generative AI images, and environmental histories. The virtual museum is organized into seven temporal realities - seven chapters to align with the idea of seven cardinal directions (east, west, north, south, up, down, you at the center). Each chapter is a retelling of the lived aftermath and speculative future imaginations of the Black and Indigenous experience beyond the settler colonial state in Philadelphia, PA.
The past, present, and future of our city communities in the United States exist within colonization’s ongoing violence - a perpetual state of lived aftermath to stolen lands, white supremacy, genocide, slavery, and anthropogenic climate change. Our land and water relations remember how we treat them with sewage, chemicals, and trash, and they influence the artistic expressions and world’s of Black Philadelphia writers, philosophers, artists.
1media/afrofuturistic-and-indigenous-philadelphia-black-lawyer-2011-law-suit-epa-water-pollution-envi.png2024-02-17T20:02:08-08:00Dana Reijerkerk019db768bf3830a97fe7e6288c61c1ade502d9bfEnter the Museum2visual_path2024-02-17T20:05:40-08:00Dana Reijerkerk019db768bf3830a97fe7e6288c61c1ade502d9bf
1media/flowing-water-black.pngmedia/About the PCDM Cover Art.png2023-11-30T13:05:31-08:00Dana Reijerkerk019db768bf3830a97fe7e6288c61c1ade502d9bfAbout the Post Colonial Museum Project16image_header2024-03-19T08:02:10-07:00Dana Reijerkerk019db768bf3830a97fe7e6288c61c1ade502d9bf