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Study

Study beyond the
institution.

Collective study groups and evolving curricula for learning across disciplines, geographies, and lived experience.

Current study group

Black Kings
and Pirates

An aesthetic inquiry into power, inheritance, and refusal.

Facilitated by Wendell H. Marsh and Dr. Abdourahmane Seck, this School of Instituting Otherwise × GAEC-AFRICA study group approaches study as a living method—one that moves through archives, images, political inheritance, and collective refusal.

Format
Collective online study
Begins
April 18, 2026
Approach
Reading, conversation, aesthetic inquiry
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The Visual Culture Curriculum

How might seeing be
reconfigured otherwise?

Archives, memory & narrativeArchitecture, space & powerClimate, capital & the visualVirtual & mediated realitiesCuratorial practicesSituated knowledges

Study archive

Reading groups, curricula, essays, and collective study from the School.