Derica
Shields is a writer, researcher and cultural worker from South London. Her
writing has appeared in Frieze, Flash Art, Girls Like Us, Live Art Almanac, the
New Inquiry and more. She is the co-founder of The Future Weird (2013–15), a
screening and discussion series of world-unravelling films by African and
African-descended artists and directors, which presented programmes in Brooklyn,
Philadelphia and Detroit. As part of a Triple Canopy commission, she completed A
Heavy Nonpresence (2021), an oral history project centering on Black
people's accounts of the UK welfare state. Her book project Bad Practice is forthcoming from Book
Works.