Course Description
Summary
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.” — Bonnie Friedman
This studio class will explore slow aesthetics and slow politics in relation to our lived experience in time. We will come together in an experimental lab, devoting generous time to slow experiences of looking, listening, moving, making, reading, and being. Our collective investigation of slow experience will include critiques of Capitalist and Neoliberal forms of speed and time-extraction through the lenses of Black Queer Feminism, Critical Race Theory, and Indigenous writings. We will survey studies of time, duration, and endurance ranging from Zen Buddhism to contemporary performance works as part of our collective research. Together we will invent new slow practices and share them with each other.
