We Are Where We Think (We Are)

This conversation explores how realities within African and Afro-Caribbean contexts are shaped not only by where we live but by how we think, perceive, and imagine. It asks how knowledge, identity, and belonging are formed at the intersections of geography and imagination, and what it means to centre local knowledge in a world still marked by colonial hierarchies. Through the practices of this year’s AAB artists, the talk reflects on how creative processes, rooted in local thought yet globally engaged, can disrupt imposed paradigms and open new ways of seeing, knowing, and being.