BLK is an independent lab advancing interdisciplinarity in art, higher education research, and impact storytelling.
creative strategy + brand comms
We provide brand communications services to clients in higher education research. Working alongside our clients to translate research into compelling stories that can transform community, change society, and build credibility.
research
Combining more than 10 years of environmental activism and transdisciplinary training, we offer research-based insights into food systems, African migration, and health and well-being.
art + culture
We produce, manage, and consult in music, film, and visual art to refigure the architecture of the Creative and Cultural Industries, towards rethinking archive-making, cultural criticism, and social impact.
Projects
art + cultural criticism
Sonics Lab works at the intersection of black expressive cultures via "the black sonic". We work on artist management, strategic collaborations, and creative strategy.
research + critique + archive-making
Queer Ecologies Lab, which rebranded from Changing The Lens, is a research-led space focused on black subjectivity, colonial dispossession, and the making of new South Africa.
critique + pedagogy
Azanian Theory Library, with critical texts and public programming on literature, ecology, gender + sexuality, art, and black social life.
language + translation
Research Comms Workshop is an impact story-driven comms workshop servicing clients in higher education: climate, health, arts and humanities