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.















Martin X Malcolm


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The media presented Martin and Malcolm as competition when the people needed their collaboration. As each life neared its end their perspective grew closer to their distant kin. In the now we imagine what might have been had we seen the days of Martin X Malcolm.



Material Artifacts
Browse Catalog


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

Martin X Malcolm Denim Thinkers Cap
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Martin X Malcolm Kente Thinkers Cap
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.

The Black Sanitation Workers Who Are Saying, ‘I Am a Man’ by Daytrian Wilken (2020) c/o New York Times
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Kwame Ture - Organisation vs Mobilisation
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
'I've Been to the Mountain Top' Address by Martin Luther King Jr (1968)
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Malcolm X's Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (1964) c/o Black Past
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance


Visual Essay | Martin X Malcolm School of Thought


Starring Zim Duru and Nico Marks. Direction by Marvin James. Photography by Homer-Williams. Videography and editing by Nico Marks. Production assistance by Sara Luttrell.





thesis
Martin X Malcolm

seasons
Summer 2020

contributors
Marvin James
Mary D
Homer-Williams
Sara Luttrell
Zim Duru
Nico Marks