Graduate Colloquium

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For our colloquium – we will be exploring New York City. We will take class field trips and site visits for research and to inspire our practice. We will be visiting Stonewall National Park and meet with an artist activist and volunteer ranger while experiencing a drag queen performance at the park. We will visit an outdoor public art installation that will inspire a collaborative presentation. We will visit Columbus Circle and reconsider monuments and reimagine urban and public space. We will engage in participatory ritual walks through the early settlement of African American and Irish immigrants known as Seneca Village in Central Park. We will research past activist and historical materials to collaborate and create our own presentations at a public event in Washington Square Park. We will hear from Dr. Sheril Antonio and her research on the seen and unseen within the park's history. We will visit NYU library's Downtown special collections and consider what is an archive? The collection holds rich collections of books, serials, pamphlets, archives, photographs, oral histories, and more. We will also have visits from artists and alumni time permitting. Part of the learning process in Colloquium is to go out of oneself, to explore, converse and think together as a cohort. Yet it is also about examination, experiential learning and finding your center within the world around us. Identifying, connecting, observing, reflecting while experimenting as we engage in Space and Place together in person, and in experiential ways. In a world that relies more and more by being on-screen, society has less in person encounters, physical space and more uncertainty. Part of our class will embody gathering, being together, an emphasis on contemplating the environment. We will have guests to the classroom but we will occasion engage in outdoor spaces with visitors. We will venture to…