What happens when moving image is placed in the real world? How can a viewer become a participant, interactant, or even activist? Meanwhile, how do we reckon with the abundance of the moving image in our everyday lives? And how can we subvert it to our own ends, disrupting the power dynamics at play?
This interdisciplinary studio art class introduces students to ways of working and moving between the intersections of film, installation, and performance. The course addresses historical approaches, such as expanded cinema, video art, and performance art, as well as contemporary approaches to these intersections. The course is equally grounded in theory and practice, drawing from spectatorship theory and performance studies, queer and feminist theory, and more, through which we will develop art practices in moving image, installation, and performance.