Description
[Social Practice minor; Sound minor] Some of the most radical creative experiments were born out of the sense of powerlessness that manifests during a personal crisis or under restrictive conditions. Artists have plunged into public archives and private memories, reflected on their dreams, form and language to delve deeper into themselves, their relationships and their histories. This workshop, which converges theory and practice, provides an intimate space to confront personally uncomfortable or politically charged questions through assignment based experiments in visual language. Through screenings, readings and discussions, we will examine strategies adopted in a broad range of experimental films, video art, photographs and installations which include; archival fabulations, algorithms, forensics, myth and ghosts, among others. In order to align content and process, we will investigate cinematic modes of production that reside outside the capitalist model. Individual experiences wil