What I Build, with others ———————————————————————————————————————————- Associate Professor Derrick Woods-Morrow (far left) leads a panel on Seeing and Unseeing during the ‘New Spaces symposium’ for the Inauguration of RISD President Crystal Williams.
ethnographic, photographic, sculptural, and sonic spaces that center Black queer desire, intimacy, and belonging.
Reimagining neglected and erased histories through film, installation, and embodied research.
Building alternative networks that blur the lines between artist, subject, and audience.
Transforming public and institutional spaces through familiar materials and sound.
Excavating stories silenced by history and re-inscribing them as portals, heirlooms, and ruins.
Deep listening, participation, and relational practices that honor opacity as well as visibility.
Staging immersive encounters where pleasure, survival, and activism converge.
Expanding boundaries between analog and digital archives, immersive audio, and speculative cinema.
Practices rooted in justice, refusal, and collective authorship within and beyond the classroom.
Research and creation across geographies of the Atlantic world—The Global South, U.S. South, and beyond.
World-Building Through Art Creation:
Archival Interventions:
Collaborative Practices:
Site-Specific Installations:
Cultural Memory Work:
Ethnographic & Community Engagement:
Performance & Experiential Programming:
Cross-Media Experimentation:
Equitable Pedagogy:
Global/Transhistorical Dialogue: