Future-Tense Liquidation II: Performance, (Dis)Possession, and Haunted Futures

Catalog description

An echo, response, and expansion of the fall course, Future-Tense Liquidation I: Collaboration, Speculation, and Archaeologies of the Future (ARTS 3450), this course will invite students and Wartburg residents to bring to life the speculative, intergenerational text developed in fall by animating it through performance. The course will center on the messy, collective act of making through puppetry, movement, sound, installation, and costume. Futures paved over, marked down, seized, sold to the highest bidder...in this course, we open the body and the performance up to possession by the ghosts of those dispossessed futures. Students will work in small groups and in ongoing workshops and dialogue with Wartburg residents to generate the visual, sonic, and material world of the piece: building objects, writing songs, choreographing gestures, and repurposing debris. Emphasis will be placed on collaboration across difference, material experimentation, and the unpredictability of process. Readings and references from fall will remain in rotation, with new material introduced in response to the needs of the developing work. Guest artists in sound, movement, and performance will guide workshops at Wartburg attended and facilitated by SLC students. The course will culminate in a public- performance event, with all its seams, fractures, and ambiguities visible. This course welcomes students in visual art, theatre, performance, music, video, sound, design, dance, writing, or any other interdisciplinary practice. Prior participation in the fall course is not required. New Genres New Genres: Abstract Video