Sculpting Public & Collaborative Performance

4 credits · Undergraduate

This course will provide an introduction to performance art, social sculpture, and an overview of the genealogies and the interdisciplinary fields that make up these forms. We will use collaboration, participatory embodiment, and the social as material form for public performance experimentation. Collaboratively we will sculpt emotional dynamics, time, and sound through spatial relationships and spectatorship using our bodies, movement, and site. Methods and strategies will be shared via in class workshops and readings; students are required to share their performance experimentation formally and publicly in and out of the classroom, engage in critique, and dialogue following performances.