Baby, [Hackers] are we, 2021
2015
”The Origin of the Blues” (2015), “BAM AKA By Any Means Incorporated”, “Blues Note (Feelings)”, “Confuserella’s Lab: Media Bay”, “The Confuserella Show (aka I Need a Shrink)”, and “What Are the Blues.”
Centered on the character Confuserella, an immigrant from the planet Panfrika to Plastica, the installation presented these works as interconnected “reports” mapping the character’s navigation of racial politics, historical memory, and real-life trauma. Drawing on Afrofuturist cartography, the videos layered fictional geographies with lived Black experiences, using archival material, animation, performance, and digital compositing to chart emotional, historical, and political terrain. Framed in the spirit of “Intersecting Imaginaries” (2015), curated in part by Dalaeja Foreman and Eva Mayhabal Davis, “Home AKA Media Lab” positioned these speculative maps within a broader conversation on place, identity, and shifting communal landscapes.