VISIONARY FUTURES

What does survival mean?

Who do we create for and why?

Visionary Futures is a series of projects that critically explore questions of the future through the personal lenses of queer, non-binary artists of color. 

Thinking about the ways in which we survive and the legacies that we leave behind, the artists in Visionary Futures, Antonius-Tín Bui, Chandrika, Lovie Olivia, Preetika Rajgariah, S Rodriguez, Y2K, and the digital platform Time Zone, imagine possible trajectories through a variety of virtual performances and gestures.

From collective ideation, the use of plant and personal bio-data as source material, and the critical examination of contemporary currents of fetish and fashion to conversations around culture, sustenance, and design, each artist shares insight into the spectrum of ideas found within queer BIPOC futuristic visions.

Visionary Futures builds upon Curator Ashley DeHoyos’ past projects Collective Presence and Bayou City Be All and highlights how queer, non-binary communities are at the forefront of cultural change. For Visionary Futures, DeHoyos has asked these artists to engage in a series of conversations on speculative futures leading to the creation of new works that consider and further develop ideas of queer, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC futurism, with several prompts that begin to unravel notions of survival, considering how and who do we create for and why?

Visionary Futures provides an opportunity for each artist to consider new paradigms for cultural exchange and the legacies that they seek to leave behind at the intersections of art, technology, and spirituality. 

Visionary Futures is supported in part by the John Steven Kellet Foundation, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, and the Hollyfield Foundation.

Additional support provided by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, Texas Commission on the Arts, the Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston Endowment, and the Wortham Foundation.