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Future Artefacts FM is a bi-monthly talk show hosted by Nina Davies and Niamh Schmidtke, featuring speculative fiction audio works such as radio plays, short stories, fictional interviews and podcasts. This program is kindly supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust. Follow our instagram @futureartefacts.fm for more news, updates and details about the show. Thanks for listening, Nina and Niamh Language: en Genres: Arts, Visual Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Black Holes Act 1: Part 1
Monday, 7 July, 2025
Black Holes Act 1 is a 40-minute radio play by Suley, which holds a mirror up to the UK after last year’s race riots. A re-imagining of Derrick Bell’s 1992 novella ‘Space Traders’, Black Holes is a satirical work of speculative fiction in which aliens offer the UK vast riches in exchange for its Black citizens and a referendum is called on the trade. An Afrofuturistic exploration of critical race theory, this two-part episode asks if progress for racial justice happens only when it aligns with the interests of a White majority. Drawing inspiration from political satires like The Thick Of It, surrealist dramas such as Atlanta and the contemporary Black British storytelling of I May Destroy You, Black Holes employs worldbuilding as a radical tool to deliberately instigate positive change. In this episode we discuss how the work is an attempt to critically reflect on the familiar with which are inextricably bound – and how to change the world, we first must imagine one drastically different to the one we have.Bio:Suley is a playwright, painter, lawyer and lecturer, Suley uses worldbuilding as a radical tool to deliberately instigate change. His latest body of work is an attempt to critically reflect on the familiar with which are inextricably bound. Fusing sculpture, ceramics, print media, film, and sound, Suley continues the Afrofuturist tradition of generating a multiplicity of futures with which to positively affect the present.Artist @suley.artHosts @influential_bro @_rebecca.edwards @niamhschmidtke Music @joemoss1 @jtre_vBroadcast through @rtm.fm
