Moor Mother

Moor Mother presents excerpts from The Great Bailout, in which imagery of spectacular beauty is mixed with horrific scenarios. Dreams and traumatic nightmares pervade her music, inviting her audience to dwell on themes concerning the condition of slavery and its consequences. Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is an international touring musician, poet, visual artist, and Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. Through the lens and practice of Black Quantum Futurism, the art she makes is a statement for the future, as well as a way to honor the present and its historic connections to a multitude of past realities and future outcomes. Her work seeks to inspire practical techniques of vision and agency against a forever expanding reconquering of land, housing, and health in Black communities. She will be performing pieces from her most recent album, The Great Bailout.