Visual Cultures as Time Travel – Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed

Visual Cultures as Time Travel proposes a notion of time travel in the aftermath of transatlantic slavery and in the moment of mass illegalized migration, of wildfires and floods, of lost and co-opted futures. Artist and writer Ayesha Hameed recounts her travels to islands in the Caribbean Sea and off the coast of Finland to study how geologic and revolutionary time are produced through the violent dispossession of the current climate emergency and the history of the slave trade. Media and postcolonial scholar Henriette Gunkel examines time travel in relation to blackness and vertigo as set out in Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred and Kitso Lynn Lelliott’s multimedia installation South Atlantic Hauntings. These works suggest a nonnormative approach to seeing and experiencing the world, and turn our attention to the body as the technological device for traveling across and through time.