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.
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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
Physical objects designed to retain the findings from contemporary studies and inform continued conversation.
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Kristina Marie Garnett
[Archive]
Amanda Flowers
[Archive]
Amanda Flowers
[Archive]
Research Notes
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.
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance
[Research Citation]
→ Space
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Space
→ Abundance
[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