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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.















Post-Colonialism (2020)


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Redefining, re-membering, and reimagining Blackness as everything other than proximity to death. Getting beyond a moment where whiteness equals proximity to power, privilege, and life.


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

Grand Rising Tee
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Available]
Sunk Cost Fallacy Ringer Tee
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]


Research Notes
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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.

Greg Thomas: The Complete Fanon c/o Dar al Janub
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
The Devastation of Black Wall Street by Kimberly Fain c/o JSTOR
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE: IN PRAISE OF ROOMMATES The Precious Quality of Solitary Togetherness by Clio Chang c/o SSENSE
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance
Francis Kéré: African architecture should stop copying the West c/o Design Indaba
[Research Citation]
→ Space
→ Abundance
Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao on Africa & China c/o ODANA Network
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Sorrow Tears & Blood c/o Fela Kuti
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Arthur Jafa c/o Scholl Lecture Series
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
The First Moral Panic: London, 1744 by Matthew Wills c/o JSTOR
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
KRS-One Lecture c/o Virginia State University
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
Sembène: The Making of African Cinema c/o Manthia Diawara & Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
The Long Goodbye c/o Riz Ahmed
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance


Visual Essays


Grand Rising


Starring Marcus Polk. Direction by Marvin James. Cinematography and editing by Marvin James. Photography by Homer-Williams. Styling by Marvin James.





Sunk Cost Fallacy


Starring Jordan Kai Wong and Sara Luttrell sharing in study of Post-Colonialism. Direction by Marvin James. Photography by Marvin James.



Post-Colonialism


Direction and editing by Marvin James. Music by Kaichasesangels.



thesis
Post-Colonialism (2020)

seasons
Summer 2020

contributors
Marvin James
Homer-Williams
Marcus Polk
Sara Luttrell
Jordan Kai Wong
Mary D