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.















Memoryhaus Maintenance


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From Leimert to Liberia, our sense of home may be as expansive as our rich histories and imprinted memories.



Material Artifacts
Browse Catalog


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

Home ‘n History Doormat
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Available]
Liberation Memoryhaus Tee
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Pan-African Memoryhaus Tee
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Memoryhaus Maintenance Print
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Available]


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.

Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art c/o TED
[Research Citation]
→ Space
The Thrill of Sugar Hill by Hadley Mears c/o CURBED
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance
Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local by Taiye Selasi c/o TED
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Movement
Bye-Bye Babar by Taiye Selasi
[Research Citation]
→ Space
Podcast #189: Theaster Gates c/o New York Public Library
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Movement
David Adjaye and Rick Lowe, moderated by Thelma Golden c/o Gagosian
[Research Citation]
→ Space



thesis
Memoryhaus Maintenance

seasons
Summer 2021

contributors
Altagracia Alvarado
Marvin James
Phylizia Carillo
Mary D

partners
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