The Present is the Future in Motion.
Afropresentism is you channeling your ancestry through every technology at your disposal – meditation, conversation, love, the internet – and turning absolutely everything into a Portal that takes you precisely where you need to be, in this moment, towards the next. Until finally, the space between the dream and the memory collapses into being your reality – now.
— “Afropresentism: On Incantation and the Machine” by Neema Githere
Afropresentism: From Theory to Practice
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Afropresentism: Quotidian Rituals for Quotidian Wounds
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026)
An innovative contribution to the field of Black Feminist Studies, this landmark collection brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in Black feminist theories across transnational contexts.
Featuring ground-breaking new work alongside canonical essays from key thinkers, this book adopts a truly global approach to its subject. In doing so, it looks beyond North America to showcase a diverse range of continents and perspectives. The collection includes not only standard academic essays, but also vital statements, interviews, manifestoes, and creative work, which transmit and embody Black feminist thought.• • •
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Transmediale 2026: By the Mango Belt and Tamarind Road
The 39th edition of transmediale looked at the re·figuration of systems, cosmologies, and technologies through the metaphorical coordinates By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road. The festival was reimagined as a living recursive carrier net – a hammock of relational technologies in practice that stretch across latitudes, rhythms, and systems.
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The imaginative coordinates by the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road call us to examine the underlying structures that sustain the constructs and conducts of our systems - both physical and imaginative: What are ways of netting otherwise? How could we re·wire the root-codes of our systems and condition us differently? What forms of infra·structuring and holding·structuring can emerge when we step outside extractive paradigms?”
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Nkisi Netting Groups
Infrastructuring is not the exclusive domain of corporations and nations. Across the tropics and beyond, there are longstanding ways of holding space, stretching time, and netting together - recipes and architectures of relation that outlive standardisation and universality.
Attuned to situated endemic knowledges, and the techno-political imaginations that arise from specific climatic, cultural, and infrastructural conditions, each Netting Group brings together artists and technologists from diverse disciplines. Through co-designed activations and workshops, elastic mobile infrastructures, and hyperlocal techno-rituals, the gatherings braid pluriversal perspectives on computing, archiving, and incantation – foregrounding situated forms of life and technologies that cultivate ways of living beyond extraction, acceleration, and global homogenization.
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Transmediale 2026
::Clients :: ::Collaborators :: ::Constellations ::
Manifesto, by Neema Githere Sïphone
Studio Nkisi is a relational practice, ethos and ecosystem
A mentor of mine once said to a friend of his,
Who is another mentor of mine:
“Culture is communal meditation through lifestyle”
At Studio Nkisi, we create communally,
And at Studio Nkisi, we meditate through:
Conversation,
Patience,
Response•ability,
Patience,
Intuition,
Patience–
Pause, when requisite.
As we reckon with exile–
The exasperation of displacement
And all consequent despair,
We re•member in order to re•pair as many synonyms for home as are necessary.
Rooting in re•cognition ~
Afropresentism, and its many pluriversal pacings:
Rendering with gratitude for what already is,
Remembrance of what has always been, and
Rigor around what insists upon becoming.
At Studio Nkisi, we iterate towards shelter -
in, with, for and through relation.
transmediale 2026
Nkisi Netting Groups:
Papua New Guinea
At the heart – and moving through the undercurrents – of the relational, process-based approach to the 2026 transmediale festival (co-curated by Neema Githere Sïphone and Juan Pablo García Sossa) were the Nkisi Netting Groups: a series of gatherings co-hosted with regional partners and coordinated by local curriculum designers (LCDs), focusing on lateral exchange across community networks around the imaginative coordinates By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road.