At the heart of this course is the question of how to continue making live art in a world that is more often pre-recorded, edited and virtual. As participants focus on the lement of time in their performance actions, we will consider questions such as " What remains essential? What do we relinquish? What transforms?"

The pandemic has redefined our sense of time, as we have spent more time both in isolation and on the internet, juggling competing demands in our immediate households as well as ones in the virtual realm from other locations and time zones. The simultaneity of different realities, real and virtual, result in collisions when we encounter other people, creatures, and materials whose sense of time does not conform to our own. Rather than resisting those differences, how can we learn to move in concert with them?

Working with everyday materials and actions, participants will engage in a series of exercises to examine their experience and understanding of time. While these exercises were designed for artists creating durational performances, the insights gained in understanding how time operates in one's life can be effectively applied to other practices.

The course includes online group sessions, performance actions and writings outside of the online sessions as well as a final multi-day project. The course follows a format of four live sessions over the course of five weeks (November 14, 21, 28 and December 12, with the week of December 5 dedicated to preparation of final works)

Syllabus