Worlding Strategies and Making Work

Worlding has become a rapidly developing concept
and process for assisting us in the creation of
work for arts: including written, performative,
media-based, and other diverse forms. Worlding,
simply stated is what each of us do day to day as
we negotiate life and weave ourselves into it. The
notion of 'world' has come to provide a new basis
for art making and analysis, partly supplanting
the 20th Century's notions of 'texts'. Instead of
subtexts, for instance, we might consider unknown
aspects of the worlds we inhabit.
Students will be presented with lesser known
historical and contemporary ways of understanding
worlding. From this, we will, together and
individually, gain new insights and means of
making work, and even understanding and
critiquing. Our framework is not predetermined!!
Students will present ways of developing the
concepts 'world' and 'worlding' while developing a
'world'. A world could be almost anything, from an
instruction manual to a painting, poem, or other
traditional form, to something using media in new
ways. That world will launch a final project,
which can be in any medium.