The Dark Matter Cypher

12/23/2020

*Job Alert!!!*
Looking for a Project Manager for The Unarrival Experiments- Illumination Catalogue, priority given to Q***r and Trans BIPOC
-apps due by January 5th - email [email protected]

Seeking: Part-time Project Manager for new project by Ni’Ja Whitson Applications due: January 5, 2021 The Unarrival Experiments is a transdisciplinary, multi-site, multi-form project that centers the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy through a Black, Q***r, and Transembodied lens. It is ...

07/17/2020

Seeking Black Trans and Nonbinary Artists to collaborate with and to create an online network for arts communities.

"The Unarrival Experiments" is a multi-form and multi-year project, directed by Ni'Ja Whitson that places dark matter and dark energy into a Black Q***r Transembodied lens. It lives as a series of performance, writing, photographic, installation, and ritual works. More soon on that...

Looking for experienced and emerging artists. We also have a paid apprenticeship structure for emerging technicians and artists, so if you have the skills and interest but not yet the experience, reach out. We want to include the names of folks growing into their creative voices as a part of this network as well.

Reach out on IG or email [email protected]

To. Our. Futures.

06/22/2020

Needed a full day to rest and take in the Cypher magic. What glory!

Our apologies to those who tried to join us via livestream, we appreciate your love and patience...youtube kept censoring us and shutting the livestream down. Our Blackness was too much for them! We'll take our work elsewhere.

Thank you to the Dark Matter Cypher participants:
Conductor/Creator- Ni'Ja Whitson
Trinity Dawn Bobo-
Sharon Bridgforth (dramaturg, conjurer) - www.sharonbridgforth.com
día bùi (cypher apprentice)-
Kirsten Davis - .ddavis
Waqia Kareem - waqiakareem.wordpress.com
Spirit McIntyre - , facebook.com/SpiritWerks
Tavia Nyong’o
SA Smythe - www.essaysmythe.com

BACA, our ASL and closed captioning collaborators... And our hosts... and California African American Museum

Until soon...

06/17/2020

・・・
Dark Matter Cypher
New Moon in Cancer
Saturday, June 20, 2020
9 p.m. PDT / 12 a.m. EDT
An improvisational experiment in the dark
Created and conducted by Ni’Ja Whitson

06/15/2020

Dark Matter Cypher Creator and Conductor, , offers "Super Fluid/Super Black" a convo on dark matter, dark energy, and Transembodied metaphysics.
🎥 .ddavis

12/15/2019

Celebrating another revolution around the sun of our Light Warrior Poet, Tuçe Yasak.

12/15/2019

Darkening institutions is some of the poetry of . Thank you to Día Bùi for coming through, supporting and witnessesing, and to phenoms: .ddavis, Tuçe Yasak, and new collaborator, A.J. McClennon.
@ The Watermill Center

07/30/2019

"this is why the universe (huge, black, unfolding, expansive) shakes and shakes her head. you fools. you wasteful fools." - Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

06/29/2019

"The universe is too great a mystery for there to be only a single approach to it."
- Symmachus

06/06/2019

Tanzkongress. Presenting developing immersive performance lecture - "Black Dark Matter(s) today"

01/10/2019

12/29/2018

Artist Food ( research continues) at Palais de Tokyo Paris. What a wonderland! I'm devouring research in darkness and cosmic mapping and this exhibition left me speechless...