How best to describe the multi-hyphenate talents that are Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman? Between them, the married pair have worked as actors, musicians, visual artists, poets – and are now co-directors of the Afrofuturist fantasia Neptune Frost. In a total dereliction of journalistic duty, I ask them to solve this riddle for me. How do you normally describe yourselves?
“Well, I recently bumped into a guy I know from a store in LA, walking in Paris,” says Williams. “And he said: ‘What are you doing here? Are you a designer?’ And I said: ‘I’m a poet.’”