28 | Camille Turner, Afronautic Research Lab

20/03/2025 36 min

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Summary:Welcome to the opener for season 4! In this episode, I welcome Camille Turner, an artist and scholar whose work combines Afrofuturism and historical research. Camille joins us to speak about her Afronautic Research Lab, a performance and social practice project that approaches colonial archives from the point of view of a liberated future.Episode Resources:Camille Turner. “Afronautic Memory and the Archive.” 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13534645.2022.2073691 Camille Turner. https://www.camilleturner.com/ Black Memory Collective. [Instagram]. “What if archivists were time travellers walking backwards into the future?” https://www.instagram.com/p/C9fGMjwARaF/ Stay Connected:If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon.To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠ or contact me at [email protected]