This seminar will prioritize lived experiences and the body across intersecting hybrid practices of film, video, sound, material and installation. Drawing from feminist, queer, and disability theory, we will look at examples of contemporary hybrid practices of documentary, photography, performance, dance, sound, installation and moving image that challenge dominant ways of communicating, looking, and storytelling in favor of a more intimate or embodied approach to representation, content and narrative. We will also discuss experimental working processes and narratives intended to expand conceptions of how to create, when the work is finished, and ways that practice becomes embodied and complex. The course is intended to expose students to an array of methods and processes contemporary artists have developed that are as engaging as the completed work. Students will complete individual and collaborative projects.---Fine Arts Seminars are intended to broaden and clarify students' perspective on contemporary art practice. Each semester these seminars shift in focus and subject matter. Seminars may concentrate on art from the perspectives of art history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and so forth, or may take the form of a discipline-based critique focusing on the history, theory, and practice of painting, sculpture, and photography, among others.This two hour course meeting block may be delivered synchronously or asynchronously. One additional hour per week of optional faculty office hours, for individual or small group meetings, will also be available by arrangement.

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