FORMS ENSEMBLE




This web text is the public facing component of Forms of Freedom. It assembles objects, artifacts, and creations made over two years of collaboration. From Dutch artist-designer Maria Blaisse, we understand that all form is frozen movement. As such, this web text is an ensemble of movements suspended in time by digital space. 

From the web text: 

Taken as an ensemble — these exchanges, these visitations, these minor experiments in Black Study — we offer this web text as an ensemble of movements suspended in time by digital space. It is sound, ritual script, image, beadwork, and practices we created over the two years of the project. Through cooperative and collaborative design, the desire to create, make, and share our artistry was the earliest and sincerest question asked of us and also the earliest and sincerest answer to our initial questions. Through a complex, intuitive, and iterative process of thinking-feeling-creating, we opened the enclosures and specificity of each collective to show you how we mean everything. Theory, praxis, production, analysis, testifying, strategizing, organizing, making, sounding, healing, and meeting became knowledge we mobilized into a collective of collectives that we believe is super dope.

Michigan State University
2022 

In colaboration with Ruth Nicole Brown and Sean Deyoe.

Funded by the Spencer Foundation

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