Ni'Ja Whitson

'The Unarrival Experiments' is a multi-site and multi-form project that centers the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy in a Black, Queer, and Trans-embodied lens. Under darkness as its primary landscape, this 'Experiment', a live performance installation, focuses virtual reality technologies and panoramic projection in an excavation of "the vaporous body". This work explores the profound, elusive wonder of invisibility and cosmic darkness in an easy, but not limited to, metaphoric relationship to the systemic invisibilities of Black and Trans folk, while aligning the spiritual intelligences of Yorùbá cosmologies with astrophysics.