Opportunity: Online course with Marilyn Arsem “Engaging the Viewer”
Where: online
When: October 1, 8, 15, and 29, Tuesdays 6-8PM CET
Deadline: September 26, 2024
Fee to Participate or Apply: EUR 175
Description Of Opportunity:
| Who is your audience? How do you engage with them in your work? What do you expect of them? What do you want to tell them? What do you want to learn from them? Whether you are creating interventions on the street, instruction pieces, participatory works, or presentational performances in front of a large audience, you are working in relation to the audience, and an exchange is always taking place between you and the viewers.An audience who actively chooses to come to see your performance engages with the work differently than the audience who unintentionally encounters your work in a public setting within the context of their daily life. And when they are asked to be an active participant, yet another level of engagement is invoked. The environment in which your work is seen – the location, the time of day, other activities that are happening in the vicinity of your work, how you appear, how you initiate an action, also impact how viewers respond to you. This workshop explores a spectrum of ways with which performance artists might interact with their viewers. You will design and perform different kinds of actions that experiment with your relationship to the audience and consider different strategies that you might use in engaging them in the work. The live sessions will include performance exercises that you have prepared, as well as discussions of the work and readings. Assignments between sessions include a weekly action in public space, readings, and preparations for the exercises in the online sessions. You will also be asked a set of related questions each week to reflect on and write about privately. The course follows a format of four live sessions over the course of five weeks: October 1, 8, 15, and 29, with the week of October 20th dedicated to the preparation of final works. Individual meetings about the final project will be scheduled in week 3. |
How To Apply:
enroll online at https://ecc-performanceart.eu/participatoryperformance
Contact Email:[email protected]
Website: https://ecc-performanceart.eu/participatoryperformance
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