Utilizing the connective structure of an Exquisite Corpse exercise, Sybil Wendler will ask the audience to illustrate, via drawings or performances, the participatory elements of being in a gathering, the dynamics of shared space, of shared observations, of moving like a large organism with multiple parts, synchronized and elemental in behavior. The group will be placed in [...]
Go/ne Beyond (for Anh Tu)
Jenik will chant the heart sutra for one full hour. Text of the chant and its translation will be available on site. Others are welcome to join.
From Centers to Flows: Plazas, Malls and labyrinths
A brief walking tour of the Price Student Center, moving from the old building to its brand new wing, will introduce the participants to two different ways of constructing space through the choreography of gathering and circulation flow.
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Micki will erect a make-shift home fashioned out of cardboard in honor of a playhouse her father built for her as a child. She will sit outside the hut and smile at every person walking by, until a passerby’s curiosity gets the best of him or her and they approach her cardboard memory incubator. The [...]
stimulus package
Andrew Allen Wilson will curate a selection of devices and bury them around campus. Todd Margolis will geo-tag these objects into the android mobile phone application Auradust. The devices will serve as anomalies – forces of potential transformation for the collective arrangement of people. Throughout the day we will harness small clusters of conference [...]
Hear & Now
This performance, with Jerry Truong and Megan Philip, references “The Autonomy of Affect”, where Brian Massumi talks about the distinction between logical signifiers, or content, and its effect on the viewer in terms of affect. Their desire to evoke different intensities of the sensation of music is experienced through the visual cue of hands keeping [...]
Off-Center
To assemble a cluster of balloons, attach a global positioning system unit, and set it off unmanned into the winds. Does the continuously dissolving balloon, moving away from the concentrated community of language and sign and towards a turbulent restructuring, have a purpose, can the attention follow it, hone in on its source – the [...]
The inner revolutionaries
At this evening event the audience can participate in their own inner revolution, with the aid of wigs and disco. Within this there is a certain amount of anonymity, and a collective energy that helps participants to free themselves of inhibitions and allow a “hidden self” to emerge. This sense of freedom and collective unity [...]