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.















Co-Operation Freedom


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Freedom may be reclaimed through the organized cooperation of the people. Ownership is the pursuit of freedom for an individual or a few — it’s roots in the idea that there’s not enough freedom for all of us. We’re too abundant for ownership. Share what you own — your time, your practice, your care. In cooperation we reclaim our history, our being, our ability to afford to care for another, our healing, and the peace in our spirit.



Material Artifacts
Browse Catalog


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

Spiritual Resistance Business Shirt (R/A)
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
U.R. Co-Op Tee
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]


Research Notes
Review Abundance 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.

Mondragon through a Critical Lens by Jill Bamburg c/o Fifty by Fifty Employee Ownership News
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Ep 8:1 Worker Cooperatives — Widening Spheres of Democracy c/o Upstream
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
CityLab University: Shared-Equity Homeownership by Benjamin Schneider c/o Bloomberg CityLab
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance


Visual Essay


Starring Honey Bluu and Sara Luttrell. Direction by Marvin James. Photography by Daion Chesney. Styling by Dash Anderson of Dash Vintage.



thesis
Co-Operation Freedom

seasons
Fall 2020

contributors
Marvin James
Honey Bluu
Sara Luttrell
Daion Chesney
Dash Anderson
Mary D

partners
Dash Vintage