Radically Imaging A World

Post-Abolition

“I’m packing my bags - going away - to a place where the air is clean. On Saturn, there’s no sense to sit and watch people die.”

-Saturn, Stevie Wonder


SATURN Projects

A Message from Mx. Black Copper (2023)

A Message from Mx. Black Copper is the initiating performance project of my Afro-futuristic world-building project, SATURN. Set in a not-too-distant future on an alternate timeline, the global oppression abolition project SATURN is near its completion and the promise of a utopia nears.

Though the Global Abolitionists for Human Design facilitate the dream for utopia embedded in the SATURN project, the governing body suppressed any mention of the Underground and their human trafficking economy to keep people believing that they are making progress towards utopia.

After experiencing years of traumatic abuse and oppression in the Underground and out of GAHD’s near omnipresent-eye, Mx. Black Copper attempted to end their life. While in limbo, they heard the call of their Black queer ancestors, headed their wisdom, and chose to live again. In their new resurrected life, Mx. Black Copper becomes a phoenix determined to liberate the Underground to actualize the true intentions of SATURN.


Projects Under Cultivation

SATURN is an ongoing, ever-evolving, world-building project containing performance, film, and community engagement projects. To catch the next projects when they release, become a patron on my Patreon page and join my newsletter.


SATURN: A Revelation - introducing the Inter-Dimensional Time-Traveling Disco Space Opera Dance Band: “The Living Ancestors” (2024)

SATURN: A Revelation is an immersive dance performance installation, direct action for community support, and multi-camera live broadcast exploring the question: what are we responsible for once we abolish all systems of oppression? This hologram-like radio show, with environmental projection mapping and multiple points of view, is magically performed in real time through the Live Performance Camera Obscura designed by George Del Barrio, paired with a live broadcast film experience by MIDHEAVEN Network + Studio. The Performance Obscura allows for larger-than-life images of performers dancing within an enclosed space to be projected onto the walls, floors, ceilings, and screens installed in the performance space at the speed of light.


The SATURN Chapters

Chapter I: The Pluto Eras

The beginning of an odyssey through space and time with one destination, utopia. The SATURN Chapters chronicle the story of the multi-generational abolition project, SATURN, and the events surrounding this future society’s aim for utopia. Each chapter gives narrative context to the stage and installation performance series.