Maps, Translations, and Movement

Course Description

Summary

This course will explore translation, maps and movement through embodied practice. Translations: The sessions will be structured in such a way that daily practice is established between movement, speaking, writing, and touching, changing from one task to the other without interruption. The participants will have the possibility and freedom to explore and establish these relationships and face impossibilities and hybridizations (speaking in unknown languages, drawing as a way of writing or moving, touching without touching, etc.) Maps: To bring this to creative practice and site-specific work, we will approach it from a topographic perspective and time frame to structure the experiences and the materials generated within. Practices, actions, and maps will be combined, either individually or collectively to integrate the notion of scales and intensities in the management of these principles and combinations in space and time. Movement: Using the body with its inherent properties and conditions, we will take these practices to the extreme, leading us to confront and question the possibilities of styles, techniques, the body, unwritten rules, and expression. Through these practices we will generate the production of unexpected results applicable to composition and artistic creation in the realm of devised art and related systems used in interdisciplinary performing arts. This course is intended for students from multiple disciplines who wish to explore language, embodiment and site as part of their artistic research. Students will be expected to engage fully in class practices and to develop their own creative research projects based on class concepts.