Have been waiting for official ok to use camera to document our "350" but we are just going to do it already. It gave us a chance to experience a contemporary development of performance. Many students had done theatre or spoken word but not 'performance art". We then compared and contrasted what performance has been and how it has changed over time for different purposes and how could we push performance to serve our need to communicate to the community the themes of our class including personal reflection, environmental concerns and transforming moments.
Working to get more examples of alternative artistic expressions so they have more info to spark their imagination.
NExt time thinking of doing a performance piece on the gaze and perception. A meditative exercise that they would write some reflective pieces after about how they felt about being looked at and looking at others. We could repeat the configuration with chairs as placeholders in the gallery with their reflections on the chairs. It would be about empathy and sitting in someone elses place and reading their thoughts. To allow the gallery audience to respond we may have a visual and or written way for them to comment over the duration of our gallery space and then take that back to Norco to give the class feedback from the community.
This need to communicate and have a voice is problematized by the potential censorship or lack of authorization for photo or video within the institution. Perhaps the lack of photo or video can be emphasized by documentation of our class work and discussions in drawings, flip books or sound recordings of our class. WE are still working on what we want our specific and general message to be.
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