Daniela Alvarez is REFRAME editor and Research Manager at Arts in a Changing America, and Public Programs Coordinator at the Getty Museum.Roberta Uno is a theater director and Founding Director of Arts in a Changing America.Elizabeth M. Webb is an artist and filmmaker and Senior Creative Producer at Arts in a Changing America.

“FUTURE/PRESENT is an essential testament to the crucial work that artists, thinkers, and organizers are doing to work toward a more equitable future.” - Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation “FUTURE/PRESENT so elegantly proposes a clear solution to a complex issue: to resist the monoculture we must work from many interconnected creative centers. The myriad voices in this book express exciting ripples of change in the arts and beautifully insist on culture’s vital role in progress. May we all take the call.” - Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem “FUTURE/PRESENT maps and captures how art, dance, and creative practice exist in our daily lives and act as mechanisms for anticolonial and antiracist practice. By lifting up the voices of artists and outlining the methods that can produce more inclusive spaces in the art world, this important book demonstrates how art is a constant source of strength for communities.” - Mishuana Goeman, author of (Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in The New World)

• Introduction / Roberta Uno  1The Call / Jeff Chang  17vestibular mantra (or radical virtuosities for a brave new dance) / taisha paggett  29Part 1. Cultural Presence: Placekeeping and BelongingIntroduction / Daniela Alvarez  35Aqui Estoy / Jose Ramirez  40Beauty, Justice, and the Ritual of Performance / Patricia Berne & Nomy Lamm  42An Accumulation of Things That Refuse to Be Discarded / Kiyan Williams  52Counting Coup on the Compartmentalization of Indigenous-Made Rap Music / Talon Bazille Ducheneaux  54Cultural Resiliency in the Face of Crisis: Learning from New Orleans / Carol Bebelle and Carol Zou  63Collectively Directing the Current / Halima Afi Cassells  68The New Eagle Creek Saloon / Sadie Barnette  74Notes from Technotopia 3.0: On the “Creative City” Gone Wrong-An Antigentrification Philosophical Tantrum, 2012–2016 / Guillermo GÓmez-PeÑa  76“Building Temples for Tomorrow”: Cultural Workers as Construction Crews / Alesia Montgomery 87Invasive Species / Aaron McIntosh  94Sunny and 150 Years of Placekeeping in Little Tokyo / Scott Oshima  96Local Fruit Still Life / Daniel Andres Alcazar 102Stage One: Establishing Community / Garrett McQueen 104Red 40 / JazmÍn Urrea  108More Noes from the Performance Essay Los Giros De La Siguinte/the turns of the Next / Devin Kenny  110Part 2. Dismantling Borders, Building Bridges: Migration and DiasporasIntroduction / Sarah Sophia Yanni  123Mano Poderosa / Rosalie LÓpez  128A Cosmos of Dis/Joints / Vinhay Keo  130Cross-Border Citizens / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Foreman  136Indian Alley, Where Art Is Healing / Pamela J. Peters  146Vessels: A Conversation / Chanice Holmes, Mykia Jovan, Rebecca Mwase, and Mahalia AbÉo Tibbs  151Fence / Belise Nishimwe  158A Touch of Otherness / Hayv Kahraman  160Harmattan Haze / Njikeka Akunyili Crosby  166Who Is the #EmergingUS? / Jose Antonio Vargas  168Justice and Equity: We’re Coming for It All / Christine Her  171building bricks for communal healing / Silvi NaÇi  176We Never Needed Documents to Thrive / Yosimar Reyes  178prop•er / Kassandra L. Khalil  182Alongside: On Chinese Students in the United States and the Fight for Black Lives / Evelyn Hang Yin  185Love Spirals: Notes on Brown Feelings / J Molina-Garcia  191Part 3. Creating a World without Prisons: Culture and the Carceral StateIntroduction / Kassandra L. Khalil  205To Create in Prison / Spel  211A Measure of Joy / Samara Gaev and Jarvis Jay Masters  214There Is No Abolition or Liberation without Disability Justice / Lydia X. Z. Brown  224HOGAR / Aydinaneth Ortiz  230I Remember / Mark MenjÍvar  232Coming Home / Dustina Gill  237Singing Our Way to Abolition / Mary Hooks  241Standing in the Gap: Music as First Responder / Duane Robert Garcia and Vijay Gupta  245Locked in a Dark Calm / Tameca Cole  250As Crazy as the World Is, I Do Believe / Kondani Fidel with images by Devin Allen  252Jumpsuit Projects / Sherrill Roland  260The Bonds of Aloha: Connecting to Culture Can Free Us / Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kula  262The Nail That Sticks Out / Tani Ikeda  268Art Is a Trojan Horse: Reclaiming Our Narratives / Faith Bartley, Courtney Bowles, and Mark Strandquist  272Try/Step/Trip (Excerpt) / Dahlak Brathwaite  281The Evanesced Series (2016–) / Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle  290Part 4. Embodied Cartographies: Renegotiating Relationships with LandIntroduction / Elizabeth M. Webb  295Kiksuya / Michael Two Bulls  300American Doesn’t Exist / Lyla June  302Between the Real and the Imagined: A Conversation with Lyla June and Tanaya Winder / Lyla June and Tanaya Winder  304Sopa de OstiÓn / Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya  310Island Earth: Water, Wayfinding, and the Currents That Connect Us / Nāʻāleu Anthony and Haunani Kane 312ACCESS DENIED: Creating New Spatial Understandings / Jaklin Romine  321Essential Economy / Jia Lok Pratt  326Earth Mama II / Favianna Rodriguez  332We Are Proud of This Land / Carlton Turner  334Mauka House / Kapena Alapaʻi  340Withholding an Image: Disciplinary Disobedience and Reciprocity in the Field / Ashley Hunt  343Thinking through Fragments: Speculative Archives, Contested Histories, and a Tale of the Palestine Archaeological Museum / Dareen Hussein  354Secrets That the Wind Carries Away / Morel Doucet  359Ohiŋniyaŋ ded wati kte: This Place Will Always Be Home / Angela Two Stars  364Ballers / Mel D. Cole  368Part 5. Living Our Legacy: Ancestral Knowledge as Radical FuturityIntroduction / Kapena Alapaʻi  373These Roots Run Deep / Dyani White Hawk  378The Future Is Ancient / Allison Akootchook Warden  380Being in Oneness: Conversations with Nobuko Miyamoto, Kamau Ayubbi, and Asiya Ayubbi / Nobuko Miyamoto, Asiya Amatullah Ayubbi, and Imam Kamau Ayubbi  3841619 / Douglas Kearney  396Encircling the Circle: Blood Memory and Making the Village-a Conversation between Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson / Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson  400Culture and Tradition: A Monument to Our Resilience / Ofelia Esparza  408EspaÑol / Yanina Chicas  410ApsÁalooke Feminist #4 / Wendy Red Star  412Mother’s Words and Grandmother’s Thoughts: Living the Right Way (a Conversation) / Maribel Alvarez and Ofelia Zepeda  414The AIM Song / Elisa Harkins  421Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Reflections of Futurity / Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine  426For Paradise / Elizabeth M. Webb  430What Is the New Basket That We’re Going to Weave? / Lori Lea Pourier  436I ka wā ma mua, i ka wā ma hope: Ōiwi Orientations toward a Radical Futurity / Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio  442The Art of Peer Pressure: Black Fire UVA! / Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold  450Part 6. Currents Beyond: Artists Shifting Paradigms of InequityIntroduction / Genevieve Fowler  461Bang Bang / Natalie Ball  466The Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice / Michele Kumi Baer, Jeff Chang, MarÍa LÓpez De LeÓn, Tara Dorabji, Kassandra L. Khalil, Lori Pourier, Favianna Rodriguez, Nayantara Sen, Carlton Turner, Roberta Uno, and Elizabeth M. Webb  468We Begin by Listening / Jeanette Lee  475EMERGENYC: An Artistic Home for Emerging Artists / MarlÈne RamÍrez-Cancio  482Listening through Dance / Antoine Hunter  491Scenes and Takes / Carrie Mae Weems  495Feminist Coalition and Queer Movements across Time: A Conversation between Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid / Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid  504What Would Upski Think? / Devin Kenny  516all organizing is science fiction / adrienne maree brown  519Rebirth Garments / Sky Cubacub  522A Call to Action / Eleanor Savage  524SOVEREIGN / X  538Flexing Hope Is a Practice / Ananya Chatterjea  540Azadi / Arshia Fatima Haq  546Afterword / Daniela Alvarez and Elizabeth M. Webb  549emergence / Sarah Sophia Yanni  551Acknowledgments  553

Daniela Alvarez is REFRAME editor and Research Manager at Arts in a Changing America, and Public Programs Coordinator at the Getty Museum.Roberta Uno is a theater director and Founding Director of Arts in a Changing America.Elizabeth M. Webb is an artist and filmmaker and Senior Creative Producer at Arts in a Changing America.

“FUTURE/PRESENT is an essential testament to the crucial work that artists, thinkers, and organizers are doing to work toward a more equitable future.” - Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation “FUTURE/PRESENT so elegantly proposes a clear solution to a complex issue: to resist the monoculture we must work from many interconnected creative centers. The myriad voices in this book express exciting ripples of change in the arts and beautifully insist on culture’s vital role in progress. May we all take the call.” - Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem “FUTURE/PRESENT maps and captures how art, dance, and creative practice exist in our daily lives and act as mechanisms for anticolonial and antiracist practice. By lifting up the voices of artists and outlining the methods that can produce more inclusive spaces in the art world, this important book demonstrates how art is a constant source of strength for communities.” - Mishuana Goeman, author of (Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in The New World)

• Introduction / Roberta Uno  1The Call / Jeff Chang  17vestibular mantra (or radical virtuosities for a brave new dance) / taisha paggett  29Part 1. Cultural Presence: Placekeeping and BelongingIntroduction / Daniela Alvarez  35Aqui Estoy / Jose Ramirez  40Beauty, Justice, and the Ritual of Performance / Patricia Berne & Nomy Lamm  42An Accumulation of Things That Refuse to Be Discarded / Kiyan Williams  52Counting Coup on the Compartmentalization of Indigenous-Made Rap Music / Talon Bazille Ducheneaux  54Cultural Resiliency in the Face of Crisis: Learning from New Orleans / Carol Bebelle and Carol Zou  63Collectively Directing the Current / Halima Afi Cassells  68The New Eagle Creek Saloon / Sadie Barnette  74Notes from Technotopia 3.0: On the “Creative City” Gone Wrong-An Antigentrification Philosophical Tantrum, 2012–2016 / Guillermo GÓmez-PeÑa  76“Building Temples for Tomorrow”: Cultural Workers as Construction Crews / Alesia Montgomery 87Invasive Species / Aaron McIntosh  94Sunny and 150 Years of Placekeeping in Little Tokyo / Scott Oshima  96Local Fruit Still Life / Daniel Andres Alcazar 102Stage One: Establishing Community / Garrett McQueen 104Red 40 / JazmÍn Urrea  108More Noes from the Performance Essay Los Giros De La Siguinte/the turns of the Next / Devin Kenny  110Part 2. Dismantling Borders, Building Bridges: Migration and DiasporasIntroduction / Sarah Sophia Yanni  123Mano Poderosa / Rosalie LÓpez  128A Cosmos of Dis/Joints / Vinhay Keo  130Cross-Border Citizens / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Foreman  136Indian Alley, Where Art Is Healing / Pamela J. Peters  146Vessels: A Conversation / Chanice Holmes, Mykia Jovan, Rebecca Mwase, and Mahalia AbÉo Tibbs  151Fence / Belise Nishimwe  158A Touch of Otherness / Hayv Kahraman  160Harmattan Haze / Njikeka Akunyili Crosby  166Who Is the #EmergingUS? / Jose Antonio Vargas  168Justice and Equity: We’re Coming for It All / Christine Her  171building bricks for communal healing / Silvi NaÇi  176We Never Needed Documents to Thrive / Yosimar Reyes  178prop•er / Kassandra L. Khalil  182Alongside: On Chinese Students in the United States and the Fight for Black Lives / Evelyn Hang Yin  185Love Spirals: Notes on Brown Feelings / J Molina-Garcia  191Part 3. Creating a World without Prisons: Culture and the Carceral StateIntroduction / Kassandra L. Khalil  205To Create in Prison / Spel  211A Measure of Joy / Samara Gaev and Jarvis Jay Masters  214There Is No Abolition or Liberation without Disability Justice / Lydia X. Z. Brown  224HOGAR / Aydinaneth Ortiz  230I Remember / Mark MenjÍvar  232Coming Home / Dustina Gill  237Singing Our Way to Abolition / Mary Hooks  241Standing in the Gap: Music as First Responder / Duane Robert Garcia and Vijay Gupta  245Locked in a Dark Calm / Tameca Cole  250As Crazy as the World Is, I Do Believe / Kondani Fidel with images by Devin Allen  252Jumpsuit Projects / Sherrill Roland  260The Bonds of Aloha: Connecting to Culture Can Free Us / Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kula  262The Nail That Sticks Out / Tani Ikeda  268Art Is a Trojan Horse: Reclaiming Our Narratives / Faith Bartley, Courtney Bowles, and Mark Strandquist  272Try/Step/Trip (Excerpt) / Dahlak Brathwaite  281The Evanesced Series (2016–) / Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle  290Part 4. Embodied Cartographies: Renegotiating Relationships with LandIntroduction / Elizabeth M. Webb  295Kiksuya / Michael Two Bulls  300American Doesn’t Exist / Lyla June  302Between the Real and the Imagined: A Conversation with Lyla June and Tanaya Winder / Lyla June and Tanaya Winder  304Sopa de OstiÓn / Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya  310Island Earth: Water, Wayfinding, and the Currents That Connect Us / Nāʻāleu Anthony and Haunani Kane 312ACCESS DENIED: Creating New Spatial Understandings / Jaklin Romine  321Essential Economy / Jia Lok Pratt  326Earth Mama II / Favianna Rodriguez  332We Are Proud of This Land / Carlton Turner  334Mauka House / Kapena Alapaʻi  340Withholding an Image: Disciplinary Disobedience and Reciprocity in the Field / Ashley Hunt  343Thinking through Fragments: Speculative Archives, Contested Histories, and a Tale of the Palestine Archaeological Museum / Dareen Hussein  354Secrets That the Wind Carries Away / Morel Doucet  359Ohiŋniyaŋ ded wati kte: This Place Will Always Be Home / Angela Two Stars  364Ballers / Mel D. Cole  368Part 5. Living Our Legacy: Ancestral Knowledge as Radical FuturityIntroduction / Kapena Alapaʻi  373These Roots Run Deep / Dyani White Hawk  378The Future Is Ancient / Allison Akootchook Warden  380Being in Oneness: Conversations with Nobuko Miyamoto, Kamau Ayubbi, and Asiya Ayubbi / Nobuko Miyamoto, Asiya Amatullah Ayubbi, and Imam Kamau Ayubbi  3841619 / Douglas Kearney  396Encircling the Circle: Blood Memory and Making the Village-a Conversation between Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson / Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson  400Culture and Tradition: A Monument to Our Resilience / Ofelia Esparza  408EspaÑol / Yanina Chicas  410ApsÁalooke Feminist #4 / Wendy Red Star  412Mother’s Words and Grandmother’s Thoughts: Living the Right Way (a Conversation) / Maribel Alvarez and Ofelia Zepeda  414The AIM Song / Elisa Harkins  421Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Reflections of Futurity / Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine  426For Paradise / Elizabeth M. Webb  430What Is the New Basket That We’re Going to Weave? / Lori Lea Pourier  436I ka wā ma mua, i ka wā ma hope: Ōiwi Orientations toward a Radical Futurity / Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio  442The Art of Peer Pressure: Black Fire UVA! / Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold  450Part 6. Currents Beyond: Artists Shifting Paradigms of InequityIntroduction / Genevieve Fowler  461Bang Bang / Natalie Ball  466The Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice / Michele Kumi Baer, Jeff Chang, MarÍa LÓpez De LeÓn, Tara Dorabji, Kassandra L. Khalil, Lori Pourier, Favianna Rodriguez, Nayantara Sen, Carlton Turner, Roberta Uno, and Elizabeth M. Webb  468We Begin by Listening / Jeanette Lee  475EMERGENYC: An Artistic Home for Emerging Artists / MarlÈne RamÍrez-Cancio  482Listening through Dance / Antoine Hunter  491Scenes and Takes / Carrie Mae Weems  495Feminist Coalition and Queer Movements across Time: A Conversation between Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid / Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid  504What Would Upski Think? / Devin Kenny  516all organizing is science fiction / adrienne maree brown  519Rebirth Garments / Sky Cubacub  522A Call to Action / Eleanor Savage  524SOVEREIGN / X  538Flexing Hope Is a Practice / Ananya Chatterjea  540Azadi / Arshia Fatima Haq  546Afterword / Daniela Alvarez and Elizabeth M. Webb  549emergence / Sarah Sophia Yanni  551Acknowledgments  553