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.















Free People Time


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Free your time. Free your mind. Liberation looks like leisure. Sacred stillness. Beings invaluable, irrespective of doings. Free People Time! Time is a tool. Refusal is a weapon. Slow down and embrace the pace of the Divine. Godspeed is Free People Time. Know all you do is aligned.

Revisit the Free People Time thesis installation



Material Artifacts
Browse Catalog


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

Free Time Tee (Seafoam)
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Free People Co-Op Tee (Sun)
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Divine Time Tee (Night)
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Go Bed
Ctrl+Space x ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Free Time Crewneck (Fog)
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Free Time Crewneck (Milk)
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Godspeed Sweatpants (Ocean)
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Available]
Godspeed Sweatpants (Earth)
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Available]


Research Notes    

Review Time 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.

Tea as Technology: Returning to Sacred Stillness
by Altagracia Alvarado
→ Time
Technology  
Negro Women To Be Put To Work c/o The Greenville News (1918)
[Research Citation]
Time
Abundance
Resting on and for the Earth w/ Tricia Hersey by Brontë Velez c/o Atmos
[Research Citation]
Time
Nature
KODWO ESHUN – NARRATIVES OF A NEAR FUTURE c/o HEAD GENEVE
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
→ Time
The Sublime Nature of Spiral Time
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
→ Time
on tine
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
Abundance
Time
Free Your Mind
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Time
→ Abundance
→ Love


Visual Essay | Free Time


Starring Alex Mercier and Sara Luttrell. Direction by Marvin James. Photography by Solomon Henry. Styling by Marvin James.



Audio Records



Ease Into The Day


16 tracks, 54 minutes, featuring Mos Def, Solange, Iman Omari and Moruf. Curated by Mieko Jones. Play this in the background to accompany your morning/evening wind down routine. 


You Been Had Time


14 tracks, 56 minutes, featuring Mach-Hommy, Jayda G, Navy Blue, and Minnie Riperton. Curated by Marvin James. Play this in the foreground to remind yourself that your time is and always has been divine.





thesis
Free People Time

seasons
Fall/Winter 2022

contributors
Altagracia Alvarado
Marvin James
Alex Mercier
Sara Luttrell 
Solomon Henry
Mieko Jones
Phylizia Carillo
Taylor Lauren

partners
Ctrl+Space
Reparations Club