Dynamic Processes: Material, Body, Space
UCLA Arts announces the spring school-wide course taught by artist Kelly Nipper
Taught by artist Kelly Nipper, this cross-disciplinary studio course will explore bodies, material technologies, and the production of space. Students will experiment with the evolutionary and sculptural qualities of contemporary materials in studio-based projects.
Contemporary materials include organic and invented material and time-based media. They may be subject to an infinite variety of processes including extruding them from the ground, programming them in a laboratory, and transforming them from one state to another based on environmental conditions and energies. Through various stages of conceptual development, students will experiment with transforming materials with radically different settings and processes, working with a range of verbal, non-verbal, and visual communications systems and sites of production, from photography darkrooms to dance studios, to explore how materials are assembled, shaped, and performed. The course will include a movement workshop and will look at the work of Etienne Jules Marey, Rudolph Laban, Bruno Latour, Rosa Barba, Skylar Tibbits, and Marguerite Humeau.
These courses offer the possibility for students from Architecture, Art, Design Media Arts, and World Arts and Cultures/Dance to create, think, and percolate ideas together.
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