Coming This Spring

Opening the Radical Self: Practices for Body-Based Art Making

January 21, 2016

UCLA ARTS WILL OFFER THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF NEW SCHOOL-WIDE STUDIO COURSES TO PROMOTE INNOVATION AND CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION

AA100: Opening the Radical Self: Practices for Body-Based Art Making is the first in a series of quarterly courses designed for students from across the School of the Arts and Architecture. These courses offer the possibility for students from Architecture & Urban Design, Art, Design Media|Arts, and World Arts and Cultures/Dance to create, think, and percolate ideas together.

Led by genre-defying artist Julie Tolentino, whose work lives at the intersection of body-based practice in movement, visual art, installation, and technology, AA100: Opening the Radical Self: Practices for Body-Based Art Making is a studio course offering a platform for experimentation and physical exploration for architects, designers, visual and performance artists, thinkers, and choreographers.

Open to non-movers and movers alike who are seeking to widen access to their bodies through temporal, spatial, durational, improvisational movement scores, texts, images, and meditations, this project-focused class is a must for artists aiming to discover new tools for developing, deepening, and integrating body-based material into their choreographic, installation, architectural, or gallery-based work.

AA100: Opening the Radical Self: Practices for Body-Based Art Making is offered on Fridays, 1 - 4:50 p.m. in Kaufman Hall Room 214. Enrollment is by instructor consent. Course ID: 122300200
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