Warpmode: Afrovoidism

Black Beyond’s Warpmode is a conceptual card game and social experience created by artist Jazsalyn to stimulate conversations grounded in Black Metatheories: Afrofuturism, Afronowism, Afrovoidism, and Afropocalypse. In the game, players draw cards and respond to existential prompts to reconfigure Black social and theoretical frameworks.

The game has lent itself to a multipart series—co-presented by Onassis ONX and Pioneer Works, in partnership with Metalabel—in which Jazsalyn, the Artistic Director of Black Beyond, has curated sessions to converse with various artists who have deep insights into a focus metatheory, before inviting audience members to partake directly in Warpmode.

For the fourth and final session in this series, she, together with Anastasia Corrine and Terence Nance, will engage the theme of Afrovoidism. Corrine refers to “The Afrovoid(ism)” as a fictive ecology and conceptual framework, which considers the immortality of the Black psyche. It exists on the spectrum of immortality as dignified—every genre of music created by Black America—and a wish gone wrong: a viral death. Afrovoidism is their original methodology for demystifying the occupied, uninhabitable oasis of The United States."

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