Sound/Performance/Blackness [6-weeks, $250 Suggested]
Instructor: harrington | Thursdays 7:30-9:30 PM | September 15-October 20
In Malik Gaines’ book Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible, he argues that “difference, embodied and spectacular, is a poor condition out of which to construct subjecthood, but can be an effective position from which to perform.”
In this course, we’ll follow Gaines’ call to understand “performance as a radical act” capable of “amending dominant discourses that manage and constrain the lives they organize.” We’ll analyze case studies for encountering performances of blackness and their sonic relations. We’ll ask: what are the social significations of sound, and how does sound/music have a hold over the body? How might we understand performance not as a spectacle of difference, but instead as a necessary form of resistance to domination? The focus of our inquiry will be how performance and sound studies allow us to challenge questions of racial aesthetics and refusal in art. We will look closely at the works of Camille Norment, Pope L., Adrian Piper, NIC Kay, Carolyn Lazard, ShiKieth, William Greaves, and Günther Kaufmann, among others.
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For each class, four (4) full tuition scholarships and five (5) 80% tuition scholarships are available. Due to limited scholarship funds, we are currently only able to offer one class per term at the full scholarship level to any individual student—if you need a full scholarship, please sign up for the class you most want to take and email us to waitlist for any additional classes. We will add you when funds become available. Direct student donations are a crucial aspect of our funding model, and without them, we are not able to pay instructors a living wage. We encourage you to pick the payment tier that corresponds with your needs, but ask that you please consider our commitment to fair labor practices when doing so. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out or you would like to pay tuition on an installment basis, please email us directly, and we will work with you.
If at any point up to 48 hours before your first class session you realize you will be unable to take the class, please email us and we will reallocate your funds to a future class, to another student’s scholarship, or refund it. After classes begin, we are only able to make partial refunds and adjustments.
Instructor: harrington | Thursdays 7:30-9:30 PM | September 15-October 20
In Malik Gaines’ book Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible, he argues that “difference, embodied and spectacular, is a poor condition out of which to construct subjecthood, but can be an effective position from which to perform.”
In this course, we’ll follow Gaines’ call to understand “performance as a radical act” capable of “amending dominant discourses that manage and constrain the lives they organize.” We’ll analyze case studies for encountering performances of blackness and their sonic relations. We’ll ask: what are the social significations of sound, and how does sound/music have a hold over the body? How might we understand performance not as a spectacle of difference, but instead as a necessary form of resistance to domination? The focus of our inquiry will be how performance and sound studies allow us to challenge questions of racial aesthetics and refusal in art. We will look closely at the works of Camille Norment, Pope L., Adrian Piper, NIC Kay, Carolyn Lazard, ShiKieth, William Greaves, and Günther Kaufmann, among others.
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For each class, four (4) full tuition scholarships and five (5) 80% tuition scholarships are available. Due to limited scholarship funds, we are currently only able to offer one class per term at the full scholarship level to any individual student—if you need a full scholarship, please sign up for the class you most want to take and email us to waitlist for any additional classes. We will add you when funds become available. Direct student donations are a crucial aspect of our funding model, and without them, we are not able to pay instructors a living wage. We encourage you to pick the payment tier that corresponds with your needs, but ask that you please consider our commitment to fair labor practices when doing so. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out or you would like to pay tuition on an installment basis, please email us directly, and we will work with you.
If at any point up to 48 hours before your first class session you realize you will be unable to take the class, please email us and we will reallocate your funds to a future class, to another student’s scholarship, or refund it. After classes begin, we are only able to make partial refunds and adjustments.
Instructor: harrington | Thursdays 7:30-9:30 PM | September 15-October 20
In Malik Gaines’ book Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible, he argues that “difference, embodied and spectacular, is a poor condition out of which to construct subjecthood, but can be an effective position from which to perform.”
In this course, we’ll follow Gaines’ call to understand “performance as a radical act” capable of “amending dominant discourses that manage and constrain the lives they organize.” We’ll analyze case studies for encountering performances of blackness and their sonic relations. We’ll ask: what are the social significations of sound, and how does sound/music have a hold over the body? How might we understand performance not as a spectacle of difference, but instead as a necessary form of resistance to domination? The focus of our inquiry will be how performance and sound studies allow us to challenge questions of racial aesthetics and refusal in art. We will look closely at the works of Camille Norment, Pope L., Adrian Piper, NIC Kay, Carolyn Lazard, ShiKieth, William Greaves, and Günther Kaufmann, among others.
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For each class, four (4) full tuition scholarships and five (5) 80% tuition scholarships are available. Due to limited scholarship funds, we are currently only able to offer one class per term at the full scholarship level to any individual student—if you need a full scholarship, please sign up for the class you most want to take and email us to waitlist for any additional classes. We will add you when funds become available. Direct student donations are a crucial aspect of our funding model, and without them, we are not able to pay instructors a living wage. We encourage you to pick the payment tier that corresponds with your needs, but ask that you please consider our commitment to fair labor practices when doing so. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out or you would like to pay tuition on an installment basis, please email us directly, and we will work with you.
If at any point up to 48 hours before your first class session you realize you will be unable to take the class, please email us and we will reallocate your funds to a future class, to another student’s scholarship, or refund it. After classes begin, we are only able to make partial refunds and adjustments.