Repeating Classes

chashama 26-15
26-15 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY

Sunday 5th: February 2012
Repeating Classes:

1-3pm
Teacher: Marissa Perel
Workshop: Bring it. Make it. Do it.

A workshop about performance construction. Participants come to the space with something: an object, a text, a song, dance phrase or otherwise, anything will do. I will guide the workshop first with relaxation techniques, a physical warm-up and a creative writing exercise. I will then facilitate partnering for participants to share their relationships to the things they have brought and to discuss ways that they would like to work with these things toward a performance. The partners will then participate in Authentic Movement, a movement and observation methodology used to bring attention to the body’s innate sensibilities and its ability to tap into subconscious movement potential. Participants will then have a brief period of reflection to apply writing and movement to performing with their objects, etc. The class will culminate in brief performances by each participant. The goal of the workshop is for participants to explore their own intuitive relationships to performance making without judgment, to learn how to make quick decisions with material, and to experiment with modalities of expression. Come dressed comfortably, wear shoes that feel good to dance in and that you’re not afraid of getting dirty. Bring an open mind. Be willing to share and witness ideas, processes, states of awareness and experimentation.

2-5pm
Teacher: Jeremy Haik
Class: Archive and Architecture

The word archive has its roots in the Greek words arkheion (town hall) and arkhē (government / to rule). The word itself implies not only site but authority. How does this notion of location and government exist in today's culture of open digital exchange and global democracy? What are the implications of a cultural environment where physical location is less important than an Internet connection and the contents of any archive can be cloned and disseminated globally and instantaneously. In this class we will look at the ways artists have used the notion of archiving to investigate the significance of site and location in the construction of a cultural and personal archives and create works that reflect the changing architecture of the archiving process in the 21st century.

MARISSA PEREL
Marissa Perel is a Brooklyn based artist, having re-arrived from Chicago. She is interested in the body's relationship to gender, desire and power within and against socio-political constructs. Her work explores these dynamics through performance, installation, video and writing. Her column, "Gimme Shelter," is the exclusive performance art column on the Art21 Blog. Perel will be a guest curator for the Spring 2012 Movement Research Festival. Her work has been shown at New York Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Judson Memorial Church, Chez Bushwick, Cake Shop and Galapagos, among other venues in NY. Her work has also been presented at the MCA, Chicago Cultural Center, Spoke Gallery and LVL3 Gallery, and has toured to Central Europe. She holds a B.A. in writing from Naropa University and an M.F.A in studio/performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
http://www.marissaperel.com/

JEREMY HAIK
Jeremy Haik is an artist and film-maker living in Brooklyn. He is currently pursuing Masters of Fine Art in Photography, Video and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts. His work looks at the slippages and inconsistencies of language through the combination of material and digital practices.
www.haikstudio.com