Afro-Queer Hallucinations by Logan February

About this Event

In this poetic treatise on truth, community and creative technologies, Logan February uses the metaphor of “hallucination” in language-based models of artificial intelligence to question power relations and resist queer exile. After the facts of colonization and criminalisation, is it a lie or a timely imagination to reclaim a space beyond gender binaries within the Yoruba language? The lecture examines the risky power of myth-making in our recognition of ourselves and each other in history and mother-tongue; the ways in which we co-create the cultural reality and future of queer African belonging.