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Thesis Exhibitions

Intimate public gatherings for shared study. Our exhibitions curate the individual studies from local artists and archivists into a collective learning experience for our community.

A contextualizing archive for ancestral, intuitive, and subjective memory-keeping. Consisting of material, written, visual, and sonic ephemera this archive is oriented by our intuitive pedagogy and interdependent research development. Thesis collections and exhibitions are regularly produced to concentrate the archive’s scope and engage in re-membering as a social practice.

Archive Caretaker Presentation | 2021

March 14 — April 11, 2021 at Memoryhaus 555 in Historic South Central Los Angeles, CA

The archives belong to the people, together we will take care of our histories in order to figure out our futures. The Archive Caretaker Fellowship is a collective learning experience empowering the intution and curiosity of local artists, thinkers, and doers. What began as 3-months of shared study for our inaugural class is culminating in a public presentation where the community may join in an exploration of overlooked histories, unimagined futures, and contemporary solutions with their archive caretakers.

This communal celebration is a display of the many methods by which we have always archived our experiences as Black and Brown people and an invitation to honor our capacity as caretakers of ancestral knowledge.

artists & archivists
Altagracia Alvarado
Annalie Juan
Annessa De La Cruz
Marvin James (founding archive caretaker)

programming
Energetic Archiving: Altar Building + Sound Bath | by Altagracia Alvarado and Annalie Juan
Oral Tradition: ACCENTS listening party | by Annessa De La Cruz

curation
Marvin James

partners
Meet The Youngs