The Afrofuturism - Black Live Matters project proposes to research the history of Afrofuturism in the Canadian art scene over the last decade. Specifically, this research team will be collecting and analyzing sources on Black diasporic visual artistic practice in Canada located at the intersection of Afrofuturism, Black Lives Matter, and intersectional critical race feminism. Our primary objective is to create a robust speculative research archive that the research team and the wider scholarly and practitioner community can use to initiate or continue further research activities rooted in the exchange of solidarity work.

As a two-year SSHRC funded project (2021-2023), this endeavor comprises two phases: the first focuses on research, data gathering and training, while the second involves an oral history component (through interviews) and the management of such rich and sensitive archival material. Along this path, the website will become not only the repository of this content but a space to share the process and practice data curation in meaningful ways in benefit of a wider artistic and research community.