VISST 4260

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VISST 4260
Adaptation: Visceral Text and Performance

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

The act of adaptation invokes a response to source material from a variety of inspiration(s) - images, poems, stories, iconic moments, people, legends, events, histories. Artist/creators work to transcend and translate resonant and remnant questions, curiosities, and provocations in their work—this work evokes a reconciling or a recontextualizing of event and revelation. Writer/creators are visual and physical explorers, choreographers of language text and imagery, artistic inventors. Work we explore this year includes the inspiration of Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, R A Walden, William Kentridge, Coco Fusco, Toni Morrison Jenny Holzer, Beatriz Cortez, Laurie Anderson, the exploration of generative AI interventions and immersive performance techniques. This wholly interactive course challenges the boundaries of text/image to uncover the possibilities of performance. Working collaboratively—in workshop format—students explore the process of developing performance pieces based on a variety of sources.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (LA-AS, ALC-AS)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4660

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 20071 VISST 4260   SEM 101

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