This course is a workshop involving an exploration of the live time-based form, performance, specifically in relation to visual or perceptual concerns in sound and image. Each student will be asked to work with a short narrative as source material for experiments in the transformation of a concept into visual and aural form. We will work with how various devices can alter these translations. The Video camera and a basic sound system will function as recording tools to capture material to be used in live performance. We will also document work presented in class. This will involve a focus on basic techniques relating to the particular possibilities of video.

An important aspect of the work will be the consideration of place and location, or set and point of view. Spatial structures will be designed as settings for narratives. Students will be asked to construct a prop or object to use in their individual project. Workshops will involve exercises that introduce ideas of movement, gesture, and disguise in place, or everyday ritual. There will also be weekly screenings of video art and a brief introduction to the history of performance in the Twentieth century.