BUFU is a collaborative living archive centered around (pan)Black and (pan)Asian cultural and political relationships. We, the founders of this project, are a collective of queer, femme and non-binary, Black and East-Asian artists and organizers. Our goal is to facilitate a global conversation on the cultural contact between Black & Asian diasporas, with an emphasis on building solidarity, de-centering whiteness, and resurfacing our deeply interconnected and complicated histories. We attempt to achieve this through our collaborative programming, visual archives, and through building long-term partnerships with collectives, organizations, and individuals.

American is an interdisciplinary artist thinking about blackness, being, and resistance in the context of networked virtual life. They use video, installation, new media, and writing to reveal how the history of power is embedded in our daily lives. They spend a lot of my time thinking about how we create equality for those left out of history, and what that might visually look like. Due to their legal name change they’ve only very recently become googleable… though still not recognized by many systems (technological or societal).