Currents: Moving, Drawing & Making

Course Description

Summary

When observing nature, we find flowing forms in water, air, geologic shifts, animal and plant life – basically in everything that moves, including us. Myriad currents are discernible, energizing, and wondrous. When noticing the motion of a particular animal, we can sense the full-bodied attentiveness, the direction, the intention, and the movement quality. When noticing the motion of water, in any circumstance, we can see the effects of gravity, environmental condition, etc., over time. When experiencing our own movement, we can perceive the flow of our own shifting attention and intention.

When observing, experiencing, making, and performing anything in motion, we can find the current, work with it, draw it, and watch it evolve. Then, how do we recognize and intentionally make fluid forms? How do we find the structural current? How do we experience time? And how does the surrounding environment influence it all? Throughout the course, students will move, draw, and design simple situations/scenarios/movement studies to navigate. Using methodologies from visual and movement-based art forms, Currents provides an opportunity for students of any discipline to engage in trans-disciplinary research and practice. All students will be contributing their own perspectives and approaches and working toward their own understanding of the work at hand. Students will do both individual and team projects.