Team
TERRY MARSHALL
Terry Marshall (he/him), Writer-in-Residence, Founder & Executive Creative Director, is an artist, writer, cultural innovator, creative strategist and cultural studies scholar living in Brooklyn by way of Barbados and Boston. He has 25 plus years of experience as a labor and cultural organizer and previously founded the Hip Hop Media Lab and Streets is Watching. His work focuses on the intersection of social movement history and theory, transformative experience design, social scenes and the role of parties and festivals as drivers of social and cultural change. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab Civic Media Fellowship and an alumni of the Laundromat Project Creative Change Fellowship. He was a member of the design team of the Constellations Fund.
He is the author of Affective Underground, a chapter in the newly released anthology We Are Civic Media. Terry loves movies and comics and is a #WalkingDead superfan.
aISHA ‘ISH’ Al-Hurra
Aisha ‘Ish’ Al-Hurra) (she/her), is an artist, poet, and world builder, originally from Trinidad & Tobago. She is the Artist-in-Residence at Intelligent Mischief. She creates large-scale collages, murals, poetic manifestos, and social dream spaces depicting collective visions of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
Her highly saturated collage, text-based work, installation and experiential art work conjure speculative Black utopias and maroon spaces inspired by her childhood in Trinidad, historical Afro-diasporic liberation movements, African spiritual traditions, and by the bold visions shared by Black folks everywhere. Using found, discarded and archival materials and encoded symbols and iconography, Aisha draws on themes of fugitivity, opacity, African indigeneity; African communalism, and sovereignty, to question the status quo and envision new political and conceptual possibilities. She explores how these new desired worlds can be constructed from the detritus of the old one. Her research work investigates the methodologies of Black imagination, liberation and visual communication & aesthetics. Her work embodies the ways in which radical imagination can give new meaning and new uses to the ephemera of systems that no longer serve us.
She is a former Fellow and Artist In Residence (Create Change Fellow ‘20 and AiR ‘23) at the Laundromat Project, former mentor at the New Museum Incubator (New Inc.), and a former Project Fellow at NYU ITP. Her work has been commissioned by the Anchorage Museum, Earthseed, Good Mirrors, Collective Acceleration, Borders Like Water, Movement for Black Lives, Root Rise Pollinate and Creative Wild Fire and licensed by Nonprofit Quarterly, marginalia, Leadership Learning Community, Cooper Hewitt, and the Center for Third World Organizing. Her work with Intelligent Mischief has been included in Occupancies @ Boston University Art Galleries (2017); Who Owns Black Art (Zeal Coop, 2019); How To Survive @ Anchorage Museum (2024); Witness @ Photoville (Good Mirrors, 2024), and Alhamdu: Muslim Futurism @ Colorado College Fine Arts Center (2024-3925). With Intelligent Mischief she has co-created experiential futurist installations at Carnegie Hall, Tone Gallery in Memphis, TN and Nation X, a virtual 24 hour rave all based on collectively imagined future worlds in which Black people are thriving, sovereign, and free. She cultivates immersive dream spaces, transformative experiences that guide individuals and groups in imagining visceral, palpable, irresistible visions of more beautiful futures.
ZENMONDO JACQUES
(He/Him) Social Dream Space Manager
EMMANUELLE ASUMENG
(She/Her) Studio Operations Manager