IM251

This hybrid media studio course will explore a diverse range of strategies in identifying, creating and activating a site through expanded performative actions. Basic skills tied to intended gesture, incidental movement, stillness, repetition, fracture/rupture, prop and site manipulation, voice, language and sound will be the topics and actions explored during this course. Emphasis will be placed on the active, deployed body so a great deal of the course will involve physically engaged solo and collaborative workshops, exercises and activities. Historical precedents and the work of contemporary practitioners will give the student a deeper understanding of the discipline. This exposure coupled with research, projects, critique, proposal development, scoring and scripting techniques, visiting artists, readings, attending performances, and video /film screenings will give the student the primary tools and conceptual strategies to successfully develop performative work. Engagement with PICA's annual TBA festival will give the students exposure to top contemporary time based artists and potential collaborative opportunities with these visiting artists.

Pacific Northwest College of Art

Portland