ARTS 317
Water as Leitmotif: Queer Kinship and Collaborative Acts of Performance for the Camera Fall 2021
Division I
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This interdisciplinary tutorial course focuses on water as a poetic and political space of exploration. Through the discussion of critical and creative texts, visual and cinematic analysis, and a direct engagement with water, we will examine water as making material, a healing practice, a site of ecological consciousness, and a form of physical and psychic reorientation. The course content is informed by queer and feminist making practices, as well as contemporary environmental thought and aesthetics. Together we will speculate on new practices of intimacy, kinship and care-based relations through the lens of water and fluidity. Throughout the semester, students will make individual works at the intersection of performance, photographic and moving-image works, and will collaborate with their tutorial partners on a large-scale installation to be documented via still and moving image.