Candice D’Meza: Intergalactic Liberation Bureau: Archive 001

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The Intergalactic Liberation Bureau is an experimental, participatory performance and installation that reimagines bureaucracy as a site of cosmic possibility. Set in a Quantum Control Room helmed by Zeta, a Cosmic File Keeper, the Bureau assembles fragmented bureaucratic forms and mundane office trivialities into an encounter with freedom. Drawing from African Indigenous cosmologies, maroon histories, and quantum mechanics, it asks: What does it mean to be free? Who stamps the papers, and who ignores them? What futures emerge when we release ourselves from the demand for terrestrial resolution? Created and performed by Candice D'Meza, this work continues D'Meza's exploration of Black Feminist Temporalities, notions of justice, liberation, revenge, and matriarchal cosmologies — initiated in her direction of the regional premiere of Aleshea Harris's stage play Is God Is(2022) and her own commissioned productions A Maroon's Guide to Time and Space (2023) and Miss LaRaj's House of Dystopian Futures (2025). Using film, sound, and installation, the work creates visceral experiences of freedom from within the Black Single Mother Imagination, rooted within a galaxy where justice is divinely orchestrated by Primordial Mothers. Candice D'Meza was an Artist Studio Program 2025/2026 participant.