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Today's guest is Aisha Shillingford. 

Aisha Shillingford is an anti-disciplinary artist, experiential futurist, and world builder originally from Trinidad & Tobago. She is an archivist of Black futures. She is the Artistic Director of Intelligent Mischief, a creative studio unleashing the power of Black radical imagination to shape the future. 

She is a former Fellow and Artist In Residence (Create Change Fellow ‘20 and AiR ‘23)  at the Laundromat Project, former mentor at the New Museum Incubator (New Inc.), and a former Project Fellow at NYU ITP. Her work has been commissioned by the Anchorage Museum, Earthseed, and Good Mirrors to name a few.. She has co-created experiential futurist installations at Carnegie Hall (Afrocosmicmelatopia, 2022), Tone Gallery in Memphis, TN ((Archipelago,2022) and a virtual 24 hour rave all based on collectively imagined future worlds in which Black people are thriving, sovereign, and free (Nation X). She has crafted several immersive sonic experiences to guide individuals and groups in creating palpable, irresistible visions of beautiful futures.

Aisha and I discussed:

• How her creative journey was impacted by growing up in Trinidad, by carnival, by her father who was an academic and by living with art students as a community organiser
• How making art led her to the intersection of art and social change
• Intelligent mischief - a cultural futures lab whose purpose is to unleash Black imagination to shape the future
• How she defines art and sees its potential for impact
• How art can be a space for communicating social issues
• How she became involved with organisations crafting narratives around reparations
• Connecting the imagining of new worlds to ideas around repair
• Bringing a big vision to life and creating team around it

And so much more! You can find links below to her work and to Intelligent Mischief, and go along and visit Futures of Repair! Links are below.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/10104573448120110

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/@IntelligentMischiefStudios

Instagram: http://instagram.com/intelligentmischief

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0DBoxD59oqVQ0gNIpjBxL1?si=36550e274d8b43b1

Visit Futures of Repair: https://www.intelligentmischief.com/visit

Shop; https://www.intelligentmischief.com/buyart

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