Clive Kudakwashe Timothy Born-Zimbabwe, 1996 Digital, Video, Performance, Digital and GIFS Artists Clive Timothy primarily works with a diverse mixture of video, digital materials and performance to explore Afro-futurism and the relationship that occurs when science fiction becomes social activism through sci-fi based narratives.
Inspired by black speculative fictional texts by writers such as W.E.B Dubois, Samuel R . Delaney and Octavia Bulter and also extends to artists such as John Jennings, Sun Ra ,Steffani Jemison, Martine Syms, Manzel Bowman and others.
Clive timothy aims to project a post-racial future through a hyper-exaggerated and low-fi Sci-fi influenced video imagery. The artist adopts contemporary materials, references and humour through the low-fi aesthetic that becomes more available to the viewer, to radically distort and break down issues within Racial and Black Racial systems. Seen In a collective/collaboration between Clive Timothy and Jess Thomas, debuting Multiplicity the duo install, a science fiction based multi-universal narrative. This further explored multiple dimensions, alternate characters and diverging themes and subject matters. in this titled multiplicity installation the video 'Stay Cool' a Short looped video embodies matters of appropriation and authenticity, identity and mass media exploitation against the black body.
Clive timothy and his practice draw influence in the following but not limited to.... [ PERFORMANCE, VIDEO, COSTUME, PROPS, DIGITAL, COMPUTER, TECHNOLOGY, CYBERSPACE, FUTURISM, SPECULATIVE, FICTIONAL, LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, GODS, AFRICA, ZIMBABWE , SHONA, SCULPTURE, AFRICAN , DIASPORA UTOPIA, DYSTOPIA, ALIEN, MARVEL, BLACK PANTHER, COMICS , IMAGE, POP CULTURE, 80s, 90S, BLACK TO THE FUTURE, MARK DERY, SCIENCE FICTION, PHOTOSHOP, GREEN SCREEN, 3D, GODZILLA, MONSTERS, DRAMATICS, THEATRICAL, DRAG, FILM, AFROCENTRIC, AFRO, BLAXPLOITATION, NARRATIVE, EGYPTIAN, SUN, MOON, BEYONCE, JENELLE MONE, MUSIC, ROBOTS, CYBORGS, A.I, CLONES, SPACE, TIME, TRAVEL, ROCKETS, FASHION , MAKEUP , FORM, ANGLE , COMEDY , METALLIC, GOLD, SILVER, ACTING, ROLE, PLAY, BECOMING, BODY, BLACK, NEGRO, E.T, BLACK LIVES MATTER, TWITTER, SOCIAL MEDIA, FACEBOOK, STREAM, GUNS, LASERS, ELECTRICITY, VISUAL, VIVID, COLOUR, APPROPRIATION, PARODY , PUNK, GRAFFITI, SLAVERY,UNDERGROUND, MUSIC , SUN RA, FUNK, SOUL, RAP, JAZZ, INSTITUTIONS, KINDRED, SPIRITUAL, HALLUCINATIONS, PSYCHEDELIA, GHOSTS, LEGENDS, TRANS-HUMAN, POST RACIAL , POST HUMAN, POST BLACK, BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT, COLLAGE, IDENTITY, SEGREGATION, STAR TREK, AHURA, STAR WARS, LANDO, COLONISATION]