As the Basic Repository of Inextinguishable Desires is a film and score reimagining the body as a site of architecture, drawing inspiration from June Jordan’s 1965 A Skyrise for Harlem proposal. Translating Jordan’s vision of non-negotiable human needs into visceral, bodily experience, the work layers performance, spoken word, archival fragments, and 16mm film into a nuanced sentiment on the persistence of Black life. Original scores, which are composed from field recordings of sites of racial violence, serve as rhythmic instructions for gesture and movement, enacting a cinematic essay that positions the body as a living repository of collective memory, survival, and desire, insisting that architecture is not only an external structure but also an embodied presence.

Le’Andra LeSeur is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, installation, and performance. Her work examines conditions shaped by racial violence and systemic inequities and interrogates how repetition and endurance can ground us in the corporeal and the poetic. Through the presence of her body, LeSeur builds experiences that disrupt imposed perceptions and resist collective erasure. LeSeur is the recipient of notable honors, including the Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024), the NJ Council of the Arts Fellowship (2022), the Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship (2019), and the Juried Grand Prize at ArtPrize 10 (2018). Her work has been exhibited at Pioneer Works, New York; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; The Shed, New York; Atlanta Contemporary; A.I.R. Gallery, New York; and others. She has lectured at institutions including The New School and the University of the Arts, and her work is in the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art.