Tafari Diop Robertson is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist, cultural producer, and speculative historian with expertise in event programming, graphic design, and multimedia. His work investigates the dynamics of Black cultural production and sovereignty through a Pan-Africanist lens. Often Robertson’s work is found through site specific media installations and community engagements. Utilizing anti-work methodologies, he meanders through a process including but not limited to kite-flying, illustration, relationship building, radical organizing, writing, and administrative critique.
Most recently, Robertson developed the Black Historians’ Department to explore a speculative historiography that prioritizes the ways that Black peoples hold and exchange information amongst ourselves, often outside the spectre of institutional control.
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