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The questions Dani McClain has been asking her whole career — about where we belong, what we carry across generations, and what we must release to build the futures we are working toward — do not live in the abstract. They live in neighborhoods. In families. In the specific, embodied experience of being Black in America and deciding, every day, what home means and what it demands.
McClain comes to moCa for a Freedom Lecture shaped by Homing Instinct: Letting Go of the Shore — her Afrofuturist short story, first published in the social justice science fiction anthology Octavia's Brood, and now the foundation for filmmaker Lydia Dean Pilcher's three-channel video installation currently on view at moCa. The conversation moves between the speculative and the structural — between near-future fictions about climate, displacement, and where we are permitted to land, and the present-tense reality of communities deciding what belonging looks like when the systems designed to define it have consistently failed them.
This is what community agency looks like when it holds the spiritual and the strategic at the same time. McClain does not separate the aesthetic from the political. She never has. Come early to experience the Homing Instinct installation and tour moCa's galleries before the talk begins at 6:30PM.
Bar opens at 6PM. Talk begins at 6:30PM. Tickets: $10, includes one drink ticket.
Presented as part of ThirdSpace Action Lab's Freedom Lecture series in partnership with moCa Cleveland.
The questions Dani McClain has been asking her whole career — about where we belong, what we carry across generations, and what we must release to build the futures we are working toward — do not live in the abstract. They live in neighborhoods. In families. In the specific, embodied experience of being Black in America and deciding, every day, what home means and what it demands.
McClain comes to moCa for a Freedom Lecture shaped by Homing Instinct: Letting Go of the Shore — her Afrofuturist short story, first published in the social justice science fiction anthology Octavia's Brood, and now the foundation for filmmaker Lydia Dean Pilcher's three-channel video installation currently on view at moCa. The conversation moves between the speculative and the structural — between near-future fictions about climate, displacement, and where we are permitted to land, and the present-tense reality of communities deciding what belonging looks like when the systems designed to define it have consistently failed them.
This is what community agency looks like when it holds the spiritual and the strategic at the same time. McClain does not separate the aesthetic from the political. She never has. Come early to experience the Homing Instinct installation and tour moCa's galleries before the talk begins at 6:30PM.
Bar opens at 6PM. Talk begins at 6:30PM. Tickets: $10, includes one drink ticket.
Presented as part of ThirdSpace Action Lab's Freedom Lecture series in partnership with moCa Cleveland.