NSISIM

NSISIM Studio is a slow burn practice of ecological embodiment


Courses

Research Methods for Artists
the Web
Nature
Time
Weaving


Publications

Exhibit

At Your Shores | coming soon

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MANIFESTO



NSISIM... means ‘spirit’ in bulu, cameroon

this space is for

the curious who wants to bridge the gap between their values and embodying them

the researcher interested in land, nature, indigenous, memory, craft, patterns, images, time, the internet, music poetry and liberation

the empathetic critic who wants to dismantle, re-envision, and put back together

the compassionate collaborator who respects, adds to, and co-imagines solutions & visions

the visionary worldbuilder who wants to dream, organize, and strategize

the creative who wants to make, draw, weave, tell, dance, move, connect

you



** a project by Ingrid Raphaël. 乁༼☯‿☯✿༽ㄏ

NSISIM Studio wants to personally thank the planet for all that it is, Sasha Kelley for outlining the marketing and distribution strategy of these courses – endlessly grateful for your piscean dreamer and capricorn rootedness and Iris E. Fernández Valdés who is our creative practice and emotional excavation life coach who has been accompanying us through parks, emotional underworld, creative laboratory, and inner child to unearth language and corporal and poetic connections presented as NSISIM.

Composed & Arranged by Sophie Lee 
Mixed by Micah Baptiste
Comissioned & Directed by NSISIM Studio

Research and Inspiration



Research Methods for Artists



Have a project, offering, artwork in mind but don’t know where to get started?

Do you need a way to organize your thoughts, research and documentation?

Are you desiring a way to alchemize research into an offering, artwork, organizing effort?

Are you looking for online and in-person resources support in the planning stages of your ideas?


In this course, we’ll:


  1. pool from an extensive list of research tools & weave them into our artistic practice (or idea of choice)
  2.  learn from artist collectives’ research methods & ways of organizing information, dreams, & visions 
  3. develop our own methodologies suited to our practice, ways of being, thinking, seeing, and relating  
  4. dive into best practices for research, archiving, cataloguing, sources for digital and in-person research
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✿Register for the Workshop by Jul. 26

1-Day Workshop

Participants will receive a list of digital research tools & an exercise on developing your personalized research methodology toward your art practice +/or art idea

Date

 Sunday, July 27 
1-2pm EST 

Cost $3.33



✿Apply for the 4-Week Course by Aug. 15

 

4-Week Course

Participants will receive exercises, extensive resource lists, office hours with personalized research tools for their artist practice; resources & guidance to implement their research methods toward an idea/project; a cohort/community, support, deepening from theory -> research -> practice

Dates

Sundays in September 7, 14, 21 & 28
10a-12p est

Cost $200

the Web



What does the ephemera of the web(s) teach us?

What autonomous modes of internet-living can we imagine, exist, and build?

How are we living in digital spaces in ways we’d like?

What can we learn from plant technologies that we can weave into the internet and digital spaces?

Could we weave our visions of the future into the interwebs?


In this course, we’ll:


  1. explore the history of the internet, soft v. hard ware & their gendered implications
  2. unpack published cyborg, internet, and tech + art manifestos 
  3. make a comparative analysis between plant-nature technology and systems of internet accessibility & possibilities
  4. attempt to mend our frustrations & criticisms of social media, internet, surveillance
  5. explore creative code technologies

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✿Postponed <3 All registered participants will rollover to the next offering in October 2025

Dates

Sundays in October! Official dates to be announced soon, thank you for your patience! 


Cost

We offer a sliding scale steeped in an honor system where you pay based on your financial conditions: income, disposable income, savings, and ability to invest.

$30-$50 - little to no savings, living month-to-month and/or similar financial conditions
$50-$100 - access to savings and/or disposable income
$100 -$150 - ability to save, spend, invest, and donate

Nature



What do plants, animals, rivers, trees, understories, and more have to embody and learn from?

What herbs and plants have been used for liberatory struggles? What can we learn from them?

What processes of grief, acceptance, love, clearing, regeneration does nature embody that we could learn from?

How have creatives, writers, farmers, and cultures personified and transformed plants to dream and create new visions of realities?

In this course, we’ll:


  1. observe the nature around us and listen to the lessons embodied in its landscape
  2. carve out our inner landscapes and get curious about what they hold, share, and are saying
  3. study the elements: air, water, fire, earth & the ways they have been written and personified 
  4. develop a poetic & political language and orientation of a personalized ecology
  5. explore medicinal properties of herbs for grief, love, soothing and more... 

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✿Class Went Well! Thank you to our Participants, you were stellar!


We offer courses once to twice a year. 

This cohort met during the month of April 2025. 

Time


How can non-linear or alternative forms of time mirror our personal experiences?

What forms of time-keeping support an imaginative way of honoring our experiences of time?

How can we notice & observe time to map from and embody its lessons?

In this course, we’ll:


  1. understand the ways time is structured to work against us & for us
  2. unlearn aspects of ownership and illusions of predictability (security) of time
  3. explore & learn to build constellations of time that defy ownership
  4. read time through afro-futurism, speculative fiction, music sheets, commutes, carbon dating etc…
  5. create personalized calendars & systems of time that support and align with your experiences and needs

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✿Class Went Well! Thank you to our Participants, you were stellar!


We offer courses once to twice a year. 

This cohort met during the month of March 2025. 

Weaving


What do weaving languages & technologies offer to make sense of the self and others?

What have weaving practices & fractal technology offered us insight on?

How can/have they inform(ed) abolitionist
pasts, presents and futures?

How can weaving processes of making, undoing, sewing, knotting, tying, and undoing again teach us about the acts of (un)making the self?

    In this course, we’ll:


    1. play with weaving techniques such as fractal mapping, braiding simulators, and paper weaving 
    2. reflect on (inter)personal and cultural weaving practices (weaving needs, weaving clothes etc…)
    3. explore and learn through readings, objects, films, images, personal archives, films and history
    4. embody learnings, lessons, and orientations toward weaving as mending, as cultural memory, as language, as restorative justice and as a tool to meditate on the self, our community, and our environment

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    ✿Class Went Well! Thank you to our Participants, you were stellar!


    We offer courses once to twice a year. 

    This cohort met during the month of February 2025. 

    Publications




      Dreaming of Time

      A short zine on the aspects of non-linear time through plants, weaving, technology, tree rings and moon cycles.



      Weaving the Self

      A short zine with poetry, prose, reflections on unraveling the self through braiding, African hut building, spiders, and African weavers.




      We’re looking for local, national and international bookstores and fairs to host our publications!

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