Investigate the aesthetic and archival languages of resistance, refusal, and survivance articulated in Black and Indigenous modern and contemporary art—mapping how artists and communities contest property, dispossession, and the colonial ordering of land and water.

Examine embodied memory and interior life by interpreting land and water geographies as sites of geopolitical struggle and social relation, where kinship, belonging, and world-making practices emerge and are continually performed.

Trace the ways Black and Indigenous artists, theorists, and knowledge-keepers challenge Western intellectual traditions — foregrounding traditional ecological knowledge, queer and feminist theory, and decolonial critique as frameworks for imagining alternative futures.