Events

The starting point for the performance is an investigation of the stock market - traditionally a place where probability, ritual and intuition collide.  Increasingly, it has become the domain of algorithmic approaches, where decisions are made at speeds far beyond human capacity to evaluate or intervene.  Eventually the scope of the project will expand to include other aspects of contemporary capitalist culture where algorithms are having an increasingly deterministic effect, where algorithms approach mythic status and shape all manner of relationships, notions of value and thought.

This workshop is an introduction to puppetry wherein the goal is to have the participant walk away with an understanding of the fundamentals of working with puppets of various styles.  Most of the work will include manipulation of basic puppets and found objects but we will attempt to cover work with full body and over sized puppets as well as the Japanese style of bunraku.  Some of the different styles will involve partnered manipulation.  The workshop will also involve improvisations work with much of the focus being on maintaining a narrative.

“This workshop will give participants an introduction to one of the most effective techniques used to train contemporary actors throughout North America.  The Repetition Exercise was developed by Sanford Meisner, one of America’s leading acting teachers of the 20^th Century and touches on many of the fundamental elements of good acting.  Like a musician practices scales when learning how to play a musical instrument, the Repetition Exercise is used to build awareness of all of the acting basics, including sense of play, listening, working with impulses, reacting, public solitude,

Formal classroom instruction is often supposed to provide students with opportunities to develop critical communication competencies.  But courses also privilege bodies of knowledge, along with methods of producing knowledge and evaluations of student comprehension.  The modern university, to use ancient terminology, is more often concerned with episteme, or abstract knowledge, then with techné, or the practical embodied knowledge of how. 

Formal classroom instruction is often supposed to provide students with opportunities to develop critical communication competencies.  But courses also privilege bodies of knowledge, along with methods of producing knowledge and evaluations of student comprehension.  The modern university, to use ancient terminology, is more often concerned with episteme, or abstract knowledge, then with techné, or the practical embodied knowledge of how. 

Formal classroom instruction is often supposed to provide students with opportunities to develop critical communication competencies.  But courses also privilege bodies of knowledge, along with methods of producing knowledge and evaluations of student comprehension.  The modern university, to use ancient terminology, is more often concerned with episteme, or abstract knowledge, then with techné, or the practical embodied knowledge of how.