cherry custard
10.27.25
Many of the guests in cherry custard come into mixing via non-traditional routes (filmmaking, curation, writing, performance, poetry, and so on), so it only felt right to cast a spotlight over those who have inspired host christeeeene’s experimental artistic practice so far. Not only those that use mixes within their visual practice, but those who use words to inform their mixing. The reader, the writer, the artist, the activist, the poet and performer; they’re all here and they’re all cherries.
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Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing advocate, parent, writer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural producer who uses web-based projects, zines, short film, archival practices, experimental non-fiction, speculative fiction, printmaking, performance, social practice, installation and creative research to explore the construct of time, temporalities, and community futurisms through a Black futurist cultural lens and experience. Phillips’ writing and artwork has appeared in The Funambulist Magazine, e-flux Architecture, Flash Art Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, Recess Arts, and more. Phillips is the founder of The AfroFuturist Affair, founding member of Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, co-founder of Black Quantum Futurism, co-creator of the Community Futures Lab, and creator of the Black Women Temporal Portal, Time Zone Protocols, and Black Time Belt projects. Phillips also recently created the Spatial Futures Initiative, housed at PolicyLink.
Tracklist:
Nas – The Prediction J Dilla – Last Donut of the Night Sun Ra – I Am an Instrument Ornette Coleman – Chronology Smithsonian Folkways Recording – The Clock Remembrance Quintet – Intro Do You Remember Eddie Henderson – Time and Space Roy Ayers Ubiquity – We Live in Brooklyn Baby George Lewis – Cycles Black’s Myths – Alter Destiny Fred Moten – The Abolition of Art Black Quantum Futurism – Ifriqiyah Irreversible Entanglements – Our Land Back Choir of Pilgrim Baptist Church – Back to the Time Pharoah Sanders – Astral Traveling Sister Dora Alexander – Times Done Changed Ka – Old Justice Outkast – You May Die Carlos Garnett – Uncle Bed & Aunt Jemma Nas – The Outcome Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train Zora Neale Hurston – Bama Bama John Coltrane – Equinox Zora Neale Hurston – Bluebird Black Quantum Futurism – Ancient Mysteries of Space and Time Sly and the Family Stone – In TimePhoto credits: Black Quantum Futurism built the SLOWER-THAN-LIGHT SHRINE in St. Louis, Missouri, to remember those who traveled local underground crystalline caves to escape Plantation Time. Photo by Chris Bauer for Counterpublic (2023).
