ReVer(b)sions Lab Series: Architexture: Touch and Text

Join Sherese Francis and LLHM to research Black thinkers, writers, and artists, and respond through poetry or performance.

Architexture: Touch and Text

What if we rethink of common sense as “community sense?” How does relationship and sense of relationship affect how we know? How do embodied networks of the self operate? What does skin reveal about knowledge? Inspired by Octavia Butler’s practice of “primitive hypertext,” we will explore how relationships of touch create knowledge systems and structures.

As part of Sherese Francis’ poetic project, KwaNTum, ReVer(b)sions Lab is an invitation for participants to be part of her(e) research process over the course of seven lab sessions and an open performance/collection. KwaNTum is a poetic project exploring concepts of knowledge and knowledge-making through Afro-diasporic-centered research, looking at various Black and Afro-diasporic thinkers, writers, poets, and artists as well as themes from STEM. Sherese will present research-findings and works in process and invite participants to create their own response pieces. Each lab session will include a bibliography of associated texts and other material. The project will result in a multidisciplinary collection of poems, text art pieces and performances and was made possible partially through funds from NYSCA Literary grant.