Languaging the Contemporary
DAN5412B.01
Course Description
Summary
This course explores the failures and possibilities of language to describe ourselves and our worlds. In this class, students will be invited to participate in language through 5 acts:
1. Listening: the act of intentionally turning one’s attention toward the other
2. Coinage: the act of finding one’s language
3. Translating: the act of ingesting and digesting the other
4. Opacity: the art of not being understood and the care of not understanding
5. Publishing: the act of making public
Learning Outcomes
- learn to document, archive, reflect upon, and critically discuss research and practice processes
- learn to communicate, collaborate and translate concepts and ideas across disciplines
- learn to productively critique creative work