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to arts and culture. this edition is dedicated to africa futurism. the term was coined in the 1900 ninety's. but the cultural trend, it described states back to at least the civil rights era. at the 1900 fifties and sixties, when african american musician, son raw, made a link between the ancient egyptians and the space age. the term itself with us to a reimagining of a high tech future through a black hole to lens. counteracting euro centric traditions that have acquainted blackness with being primitive around the world, africa, futurism is inspiring and redefining the work of an increasing number of artists, say, false seat belts, and get ready for journey through a brave and colorful you. whoa! kenyon, artist cyrus could bureau breathe new life into the started technology, abandon radios become space, age communication devices,
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rusting, picks geared bicycles called black mumbles. i turned into sculptures that could have been left here by an alien civilization. bureau had been making art for years before a gallery in italy, gave it a label, acro future. i didn't know about for future. that's my 1st year. there was for future his series of eyeglasses called the standards make a brew famous, constructed from trash collected on his travels with their master, both different cultural traditions. to me that is for future, like it's a combination of different culture, decent material, different from, like global. but it's how something new can be more more a shift. no, it's more awful. pizza. with black panther,
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hollywood finally gave the world a new perspective on africa. the superhero movie set and the high tech african land of conduct brought afro futurism into the mainstream. a world away from hollywood in a boot nigeria, apple futurism, is also taking root. a new generation of african artists is looking at their own culture from a new angle. comic book artist you to g must kinda credits black panther aqua card before. no, i've been known to be for about the 3rd. what's called 3 black concept. went to the phone as it was power no did with the knowledge it was mind blowing. africans everywhere were wow. in this comics. what kinda uses sy, fi and fantasy to address real world issues, the political power, corruption and abuse. lucky lou set in 2050
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a de imagined africa as a world power battling on the global stage alongside china. and the us spacious modeled on, senegalese fishing boats, a post apocalyptic world, inspired by west african folklore, a zimbabwe and super hero. just some of the comics published by golly, media, which brings the best an afro futurist art and animation to the world. well, also, isn't that the same price nice just so much in there? to be honest will be a waste was to get to listen to the disney is listening. the hollywood giant is backing you watch, a sy fi animated series created by qu golly, details of the plot are still top secret is pretty much because fissions story
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taking place in the lead, both slow that the class inequality. and i'm very careful. yeah, yeah, that's all i can say about whether in comics, movies, music or design. the art of apple futurism combines tradition with imagination to envision a brighter future for africa and the world. the author of that report is scott rock spar, and he's with me in the studio. welcome scott. now you spent some time looking into this, the term for a future ism, in decades old already, but right now it seems to be enjoying a revival. yeah, as you mentioned, i mean the idea of this, the stylist, a combination of african traditions miss with, with sort of science fiction motifs a bit around maybe since the 50s or sixties. but it really enjoyed a new or mainstream revival with, with black panther. and i think a lot of the credit there has to go to the costume designer, the oscar winning costume designer,
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about build roof carter. because what she did was combine sort of really ancient african designs with sort of a futuristic a style and. and by making this combination, she was able to create a vision of africa that was those super high tech, but also true to african history. and this film and her designs were hugely inspirational. also were african artists because the 1st time they were showing a hollywood film that imagined africans as superheroes and not as history. and one of those african artists is photographer osborne malaria. he's being called a master at creating all turn it back universes. tell us more about him. yeah, i was going to try as fast that he sees a toggle for and what he does is he uses sort of 5 pi motifs to reinterpret both african history and the african a present. here's a photo. here's for example, that reimagined kenya's mouth mal independent spiders and he matches them as high tech operations divides fi fi glasses in order to fight british colonialism. and
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much re told me that he deliberately works against the sort of negative images that the awesome seasoned western media of africa and tries to take members from outside from the outskirts of society and, and put them in the new, in a new light. one of my favorite works of his is nairobi underground. pike club, which imagines short stature, people as, as warriors as members and sort of a global of icon. basically what my tri wants to do is to retell african history and to sort of recapture it from the distortions of, of the western view of africa. ok, so this one is inspiring odd, after a few tourism has played a huge role in empowering black artists to tell their own stories and imagine the writing futures. does it also have a political agenda? i think for a lot of artists, it does have a very political agenda, especially on african artists because we're talking about communities and cultures
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in which have often or their history of often been distorted or even destroyed by colonialism or, or by slavery. and so for a lot of the features artists by using these motifs of science fiction, they're able to sort of reimagine their own path and project it into a sort of utopian future. and to tell their own story in their, for their own perspective in a way that doesn't, isn't district shape are distorted by the, this sort of western view. ok. rocks for thanks so much for coming in and sharing your insight. now after futurism has also played a huge role in music in the 1970 george clinton on least p funk on the world with futuristic lyrics and album covers and live sets before him descending to the stage from a space ship. well, recently beyond say, revive the theme with her visual album. black is king. and here in berlin, nigerian born neo soul artist wayne snow is also combining the futuristic with the traditional for him to his african heritage. is
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a major inspiration. future for me is just the tools we use and the after official reason, african means that it is rooted in tradition. when snow won't be put in a box i i blend so pop an electronic sounds makes it easy. listening, but it requires hard work in the studio. yes. when we mix in found nina, we recorded live with the whole band with no gigs last year. musicians have been promoting them you think by making live versions of that song to put on line. ringback where did you record it? this might take this last take here, i think,
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right inside our books with the band. ringback ringback ringback me wayne usually puts a lot of thoughts into his visuals. he often visits art gallery for inspiration by videos and for the music itself, which he says he can actually see i have a bit of a finished asian. that is when i hear sounds follows like goes with follows. so i've always tried to express a visual part of the music. that is what i make, that sound. i try to be all show people the colors that go with it. if i were to do a music create, here are the definitely influenced by these callers around as well as a connection between sound and vision. the nigerian artist want to show his funds
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a different image of africa. this me was quite important for me to show people well, you can have things very beautiful things coming from africa as well. and you will have the impression that they were made anywhere else. so it was really, really something i wanted to just show this how natural it is. and on my 1st video 70, the idea was to show like this traditional way of work and which is on this game. i had black here, and we use the same kind of a way approach that duty mikaya for the neck laces. inspired by a for the future, isn't this meeting a future and tradition is a core theme in his music? ah, when you see it,
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it looks sure istic what the experienced people told me they had was that future? what are the same kinds of failure was rooted strong tradition. ah, as we use like somewhat into like this camera feel me me or so we use some like traditional options and when both they meet the create a future wayne is looking to the future. and then the artists we feature that just a few of the many, his work is being inspired by afro futurism. i'll leave you with one of the artists credited with taking the movement into the mainstream. janelle monet's science fiction infused poetry and song, often through the eyes of a sassy female android alter ego, takes a futurism to another level. the next time the
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