Shaper Of God by American Artist

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SHAPER OF GOD is a research machine designed by American Artist to form connections between the life and work of Octavia E. Butler (b. 1947, Altadena, CA), rocket science and sci-fi in Los Angeles, and a shared migration pattern of African-diasporic families from the South to the West. Using a historical materialist frame of study, Artist’s project asks of Altadena and the frequency of Black people practicing art and science there, “is there something in the water?”

Commissioned by KADIST as part of Ways of Reading. Programming by Oliver Wise and animation by Charlie Hong. Special Thanks to Zainab Aliyu.