Candice D’Meza Intergalactic Liberation Bureau: Archive 001

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.

Candice D’Meza is a Houston-based multidisciplinary artist working across theater, performance, film, ritual, and social practice. A four-time Houston Press Theater Award winner and 2024 Cal Arts Herb Alpert Award in Theatre nominee, her work explores Black futurism, ancestral technologies, and speculative world-building. She has been commissioned by The Catastrophic Theatre for Miss LaRaj’s House of Dystopian Futures (2025) and A Maroon’s Guide to Time and Space (2023), and her projects have been commissioned, presented, exhibited at institutions, including Latinx Playwrights Circle, DiverseWorks, The Blaffer Museum, The Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, and Colgate University. Her work spans multimedia storytelling, experimental documentary, and ritual performance, engaging themes of grief, liberation, and intergenerational memory.