ART 5704 - Media Arts, Performance, and Sound: Decolonizing Performance

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading (no audit).

Co-meets with ART 3704.

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How do we decolonize our bodies, our practices and our education? This course interrogates the theory and practice of body-based performance in contemporary art through the lens of decolonization. How can we challenge and destabilize the established hierarchies and histories and traces of colonialism using art as a tool of empowerment, and revision of a conflicting past. The course invites you to think of performance as a practice that blurs the line between art, life and politics, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and direct action. Centering the work of BIPOC, and Latin-American artists as well as indigenous epistemologies in relation to process, place-based learning and making. Exploring the use of the body as an expressive medium and critical site of research and action.