Course Description
Summary
In The Return of All Things, we are activated to investigate the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College Archive as source material for the creation of sound works. These new works can take on a multitude of forms including collaborative cross-media projects, improvisations, variously notated compositions, radio plays, or installations. We will look at other ways in which the archeological dig of archival research has served as an important jumping off point for several artists... including poet Susan Howe and The Telepathy of Archives and the explorations of movement artists Ralph Lemon and Jennifer Monson with their ideas of the body as an archive.
We will discuss how found materials can generate new work and specifically be able to articulate what about these works inspire us and how we are able to metabolize and respond to these found histories to move forward creatively. Throughout the semester we will share the development of our projects with our classmates and periodic assignments will help to focus our process. You will be asked to submit documentation for your final project and present it to the class.
