Black Contemporary

Black Contemporary serves as an experiential laboratory for ongoing investigations intended to expand our knowledge specific to the study of atmospheric logics, materiality and the American agricultural landscape. The field station is located two miles of Ames, Iowa. Using experiential perceptions as spatial conditioners, current studio projects focus on the act of making and curating a series of research assemblies within a dormant seed-drying facility and its host context. This work might best be understood as a peculiar deposit of site-adjusted material stagings that indicate the presence of and makes clearly recognizable, its context as a referent rather than source or setting.