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2020-2021 Study Guide





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2020-2021 Study Guide


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Developed collectively by Altagracia Alvarado, Annalie Juan, Annessa De La Cruz, Ardo Hersi, Ashly Sypherd, and Marvin James





01 — Contemporary Archive
Podcast #189: Theaster Gates c/o New York Public Library (Podcast)

Saidiya Hartman & Arthur Jafa c/o The Hammer Museum (Video)

The Merger of Academia and Art House c/o The New York Times (Reading)

Kimberly Drew On Making Art Radically Accessible For All (Podcast)

Archives Have the Power to Boost Marginalized Voices | Dominique Luster (Video)

The Overlooked, Radical History of Black Women in Art c/o Artsy (Reading)




02 — The Creative Economy


The Big Flat Now (Reading)

Ep 8.1: Worker Cooperatives - Widening Spheres of Democracy (Podcast)

What Actually Happens in the Art Market’s Informal Economy (Reading)




03 — Post-Colonialism


Kicked Off The Land by Lizzie Presser (Reading)

Postcolonial African Philosophy “Some Misleading Abstractions about Identity” by D. A. Masolo p.288-300 (Reading)

Toni Morrison and Marlene van Niekerk in Conversation (Video)

Review: The Puerto Rican Paradox: Colonialism Revisited (Reading)





04 — Love


All About Love by bell hooks “Honesty - Be True To Love” p. 33-45 (Reading)

All About Love by bell hooks “Justice - Childhood love” p. 16-26 (Reading)

All About Love by bell hooks “Romance - Sweet Love” p. 168-179 (Reading)

All About Love by bell hooks “Values - A Love Ethic” p. 93-94 (Reading)

The Spirit of Intimacy by Sobonfu Some “The Illusion of Romance” p. 96-101 (Reading)





05 — Space


Theaster Gates: How to revive a Neighborhood with beauty (Video)

Lecture Series: Oana Stanescu (Video)

Vertical City of the future (Video)

Tao of Physics - Space Time (Reading)

The Truth of Life how everything is all connected (Video)

bell hooks are you still a slave? (Video)

Energy Body (Image)

Energy Body 2 (Image)

Soul Groups (Image)




06 — Movement


South Of Pico, p. 1-14 (Reading)

Jacob Lawrence and the Making of the Migration Series (Video)

‘Rize’ on Netflix (Video)

African Dance As Healing Modality Through the Diaspora (Reading)

Decolonizing The Art of Twerking (Reading)





07 — Technology


‘The Social Dilemma’ on Netflix (Video)

Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind (Reading)

Capitulo 008: Femme Tech: Locatora Radio (Podcast)

Philosophy of Technology (Reading)

The Anatomy Of The Screen: The Technological Extension of Reality (Video)





08 — Nature


A guerilla gardener in South Central LA | Ron Finley (Video)

Environmental racism has ‘ripped’ Black people away from nature (Reading)

Get Out: Nurturing A Bond Between Black People And Nature (Podcast)

Rem Koolhaas’s Journey to the Countryside (Reading)

A Tennessee Farm Grows A New Generation Of Social Justice Activists (Reading)

Europeans killed millions of Native Americans — and changed Earth’s climate, study says (Reading)





09 — Time


A Conversation Between Aria Dean and Meg Onil (Podcast)

Colored People Time Hayden Gallery (Brochure)

Kodwo Eshun - Narratives of a Near Future (Video)

Time and the African-American Experience: The Problem of Chronocentrism (Reading)

How Saidiya Hartman retells the history of Black Life (Reading)