Performance: OK ANIMALS

Course available by Permission of Instructor
only.
The Studio Series is comprised of
discipline-specific studio based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn
both technically and conceptually through hands
on experience. At present, Drawing, Painting,
Sculpture, Print Lab, Time-Based Studio,
The Art of Practicing Socially and Critical
Ceramics are part of this series. Each session is
taught by different faculty. Multiple sessions
are offered in each semester. Different faculty
may teach the same discipline-specific session to
ensure exposure for various approaches. BFA
Students are required to take at least 8 units of
the Studio Series over the course of their
attaining their BFA degree. Please refer to
course
descriptions provided by each individual
instructor for more details.

Taught by Harry Dodge - Using the framework of a
studio-based course,
Performance provides BFA students the opportunity
to
study technical and conceptual processes through
hands on experience. Different instructors may
approach the method and concept of Ceramics
differently. Multiple sessions may be offered in
each semester. Please refer to course
descriptions provided by each individual
instructor for more details. BFA Students are
required to take at least 8 units of studio-based
courses to fulfill their BFA degree requirement.
This course may be repeated for credits.

A course exploring the role of the body
in art via a guided practice in performance and
performative video. The course will offer a
number of different things at once, including
exposure to recent and contemporary performance
and performative video; opportunities to learn
and employ performance strategies; familiarity
with formal concepts in performativity, including
costuming, pacing, duration, movement, humor, and
editing; experiments and strategies for
generating and performing text; and meditation on
the possible roles and deployments of the body
and materiality in our time. Such questions have
been made all the more urgent by a culural and
artistic environment increasingly tied to and
formed by the internet and the digital, 'virtual'
world. Related concepts will include abjection,
transgression, solidarity, queering, broader
theorires of flesh (phenomenological,
holographic, fantasy), dissensus, conjunction,
and physical limitations as a source of artistic
inspiration and political resistance. Readings
may include work by Rosi Braidoitti, Henri
Bergson, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Gloria Anzaldua,
and others.