Museums, as a Western concept are institutions of history— telling stories locked into a lineair time line. A timeline that historically celebrates the victor, keeping their victories alive and quote-unquote relevant, while erasing the stories of those they left behind. Their story is structured, chaptered, controlled by a Eurocentric ethics of time and space.

But what about us? Can our museum transcend the need to be validated by the frameworks of the status quo? Can we build a future that doesn’t rest on conquest, domination, or nostalgia.

But to do that, we must reject the colonial grip of linear time. Instead, we embrace non-linear time, the fluidity of being, found in African mythology, cosmology, and spirituality.

In this episode, we are reimagining what it means to make a museum. Something that centers our heritage, our culture, and art, with a programming that liberates us from mental slavery and that gives us the tools to project ourselves into the future. You know this, of course, but in case you're sharing this email with others, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) is an international network of museums and museum professionals that aims to protect and conserve cultural heritage globally. Since 1946, the members of this organization have shared knowledge and expertise across national, regional, and continental committees and contributed to the professional development and innovation of the concept of what a museum is. 

So now that we are making the Museum of Black Futures, should we use their definitions to shape and inspire our museum? Do we aspire to integrate into such a network to find partners and exchange knowledge? Or should we ignore their definitions, continue our own exploration, and demand our respect from a fringe position in the museum field? We are exploring what a museum means to us as a term, a meaning ,as a set of relations and a space with architect, artist, and researcher Patty Anahoy.

Talking about relations, and meaning, we decided to release the first episodes on Friday, August 8th, under the potent double-8 of the Lion’s Gate Portal. In astrology, that day marks when the Sun in Leo aligns with Sirius, celebrated as a window of transformation, manifestation, and cosmic alignment. It’s an opening of spiritual gates and an invitation to claim power and clarity.

Aligned with this timing, we draw on ancestral energy referred to by the Dogon people of Mali. Although disputed by Western anthropology cosmology, many of us futurists believe that Dogon cosmology speaks of Sirius B as “Po Tolo,” the source star, the egg of beginnings. The origin point of cosmic memory. Our August 8 release is a sonic invocation, summoning that ancestral spark and speculation.

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Releasedatum: 8-8-2025 08:08:00