One of the central tasks of the peer group is to develop a collaborative project addressing program themes, to be presented during the final week of winter quarter. The project must include aspects of each workshop (music, movement, and photography/film), and include an experiential component. We consider the intersession weeks (week 8 of fall quarter and week 4 of winter quarter) to be valuable times for planning and designing the collaborative project. In addition to regular Thursday meetings, you need a minimum of two working sessions during each intersession week. Your collaborative project should be presented with five minutes for set-up time, twenty minutes maximum presentation time, and fifteen minutes for critique afterward. Develop a maximum one-page (single-spaced) artists’ statement describing the theme and conceptual framework of your presentation. To familiarize yourself with what an artist’s statement looks like, visit the gallery or museum of your choice or go online. The statement will due at the end of week 4 (intersession week) of winter quarter.
The following is a further clarification of the three elements of the presentation.
Program themes: Your presentation should clearly address one or more of the program themes. Program themes have also emerged in your essays; talk about them in your groups to determine which themes are most important to the members of the group. A considerable amount of your work should go into developing a conceptual framework for your theme. Your conceptual framework should draw from books, lectures, workshops, and other relevant materials. The presentation itself should be an exploration of the theme you have identified, placed within the conceptual framework.
Experiential component: Your group
needs to include an experiential component in which, during the event, your
audience is invited to engage or interact with your presentation in some way.
Workshops: Incorporate sound, movement, and visual work in your presentation. These should be directly relevant to issues, techniques, and practices developed in your workshops. This means coordinated live acoustic group sound (not necessarily musical); Super-8 film or slides; energetic body maps, and the eight limbs of classical yoga.
Equipment is the responsibility of each group, and also needs to be coordinated with the program aide. Your peer groups have the scheduled dates, times and locations listed below. In addition to being present for your own work, you must also be available for the work of your peers.
Week Ten of winter quarter will be as follows:
Presentations Monday 9-12 (Recital Hall) – groups 1, 2, and 3
Presentations Tuesday 9-12 (CRC 116-117) – groups 4, 5, and 6
All program yoga 2:30-4:30
Presentations Thursday 9:30-12 (Com 308) – groups 7, 8, and 9
Presentations Thursday 1 – 4 (Com 308) – groups 10, 11, and 12