whylin wildin

​with our personal studio spaces designed as sharing locations we will approach virtual world as interactive performance space. Let's navigate what virtual sharing + art processing could look like using the tools of the internet and a personal devotion to our studio work tools. We will spend this course developing our own virtual avatars using old school audio video recording and dubbing techniques and performance practices and sharing them.      

Course type:  cross disciplinary praxis seminar

Number of students: 12 people 

Course Description:

This course is about technologies of Black space formed in frameworks of violence. Our cohort will mine the city archives for public records defining the emergence of North Philadelphia's current social architectural layout. Juxtaposing our research in institutions, we will be walking and biking Lenapehoking travel routes and waterways, and deconstructing the colonial project through the lens of the bureaucratic blighting and subsequent gentrification of North Central in the wake of the Black rebellion of 1964. We will develop projects that put us in continuity with public memories of abolition, migration, mutual aid, porch sitting, neighborhood festivals, and cultural organizing as means of neighborliness and Black social life. By having to endure governmental decisions waging domestic war and violence in local communities, mass local mourning [1960s - 2000s] took the form of squatting/outdoor altars/shrines/memory rituals organized and performed by residents. With urban planning in high gear and the war on drugs nearly 40 years past, we will re engage the long memory work of resident artists, worker organizers, cultural workers, and educators performing, disrupting, deconstructing, and forming social possibilities. Research of fact, memory, and imagination should yield questions, leading to the development and practice of methods for our cohort. Course readings, watching films, and looking at images will aid us in contextualizing the cultural work of Black geographies with social power and political movement. Students will keep a journal of their walking life, complete photographic essay assignments, conduct oral histories, and collaborate for group exhibition of their work.  

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Source material:
Andaiye. edited by Alissa Trotz. 2020. The Point Is to Change the World. 

Lefebvre, Henri (Author), Nicholson-Smith, Donald (Translator). 1974, 1984, 1991. The Production of Space. 

Edited and with an essay by Shanken, Edward A. 2003. Roy Ascott Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness. 

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. 2020. DUB: finding ceremony.

edited by Biserno, Elena. 2022. Going Out: Walking, Listening, Soundmaking. 

Biserno, Elena. Walking from Scores.



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