Camera Performances
Course Description
Summary
This class will look at the intersection of photography and performance art inside the contributions of feminist and queer practices. Students will respond to different performance prompts, alternating between the roles of performers and photographers, and thinking about ways to use the camera as an artistic and documentation tool. They will also engage in readings and analysis of works from BIPOC, feminist, and queer authors and photographers from the global south. Students will experiment with performances, learn camera techniques, practice photographing still and moving subjects, develop art direction projects, compose narratives, and create installations with photographs.
Photoshop and Lightroom will be available on all workstations in the Photo Digital Lab.
Students will be required to have a Mac-compatible external hard drive and inkjet photo paper to complete assignments.
Learning Outcomes
- Create awareness of the contributions to art history from feminist and queer
practices from the global south and reflect on the possibilities of using
photography and performance for social change - Develop camera and editing skills in combination with art direction
- Experiment with different types of performances and techniques for storytelling
- Create new work, individually and in group, within short time periods in response
to prompts and a sustained independent final project - Practice contributing to critiques with peers and receiving feedback on their work
- Develop an interdisciplinary and personal approach to photography while
analyzing, creating, reading, discussing, and writing about photography