Thesis Collections


Thesis Collections present material artifacts, research notes, visual essays, and audio records as products of study. This artistic and archival practice of sharing in study intends to know our histories, imagine our futures, and ground us in the present. Research Thesis are ongoing and collaborative to provide community the opportunity to deeply engage with a particular theory or idea.

Abundance Builders Cooperate [FA24]
Telepathic Rhythms [SS23]
Free People Time        
[FW22]

Visibility Enslaves - ORI SEES [FA21]
Memoryhaus Maintenance [SU21]
Before The Harvest [SP21]
Co-Operation Freedom [FA20]
Martin X Malcolm [SU20]
BLACK summer
[SU20]

Post-Colonialism [SS20]
Neighborhood Studios [FW19]





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.















BLACK summer


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An intuitive understanding within Blackness transcends the constraints of physical place and its manmade divisions. Moments of BLACK summer open portals for an exchange of the warmest degrees in the cool shadows of hot afternoons. It is here where we care to freely share in expression and imaginings born in new phases of life.



Material Artifacts
Browse Catalog


Physical objects designed to retain the findings from contemporary studies and inform continued conversation.

BLACK summer Tee
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
BLACK Summer Reversibucket
Kristina Marie Garnett
[Archive]
BLACK summer Booklet T.01
Amanda Flowers
[Archive]
BLACK summer Sticker P.01
Amanda Flowers
[Archive]


Research Notes
Review Space Journal


A collection of subjective research that provides context for contemporary studies — this mix of ancestral and intuitive documentation is curated communally in support of figuring it out together.

Rosedale: The Way It Is (1976) c/o Bill Moyers Journal
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance
Michaele Pride-Wells: Practice what you preach (October 11, 1995) c/o SCI-ARC
[Research Citation]
→ Space
Reimagining Black Space
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Space
→ Abundance
The Thrill of Sugar Hill by Hadley Mears c/o CURBED
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance


Audio Record | BLACK summer


17 tracks, 1 hour, 11 minutes, featuring Obongjayar, The Internet, FLEE, and The Isley Brothers. Curated by Marvin James.






thesis
BLACK summer

seasons
Summer 2020

contributors
Marvin James
Amanda Flowers
Channel Tres
Kristina Marie Garnett
Mary D

partners
SWANK