Freedom Practice(s)
On view at UAS Online
Led by Crystal Michelle Perkins, Assistant Professor, and Choreographer, students from the Department of Dance and the School of Music collaborated to create a unique weekly investigation that sat at the intersection of art-making and socio-political discovery. They created scores for survival, embodiments of freedom, responses to confined spaces, and imaginings focused on (un)tethering themselves from an overly politicized body. They created these ideas asynchronously and synchronously and only through the Zoom platform. This experiment in social distancing and connectivity was designed to usher our community towards the possibility of new and hybrid identities. Exploring differences and similarities towards new becoming(s) they continued to make room for cultural bodies in sound and motion, using their scores for survival and conversations around global urgencies such as the pandemic and social justice to drive their creative practices.
Freedom Practice(s) explores the ways in which the idea of archive might be a living and breathing thing. How can this work be appreciated and explored over time if we trace it's becoming in the process? What happens to the archive of performances if we invite others to experiment with the work? As creators, the artists found that the process of crafting in confined spaces opened an endless way to become FREE as humans and in their roles as choreographers, composers, and performers.
View the Freedom Practice(s) archive here
The online archive of Freedom Practice(s) is presented in partnership with Urban Arts Space's Hybrid Arts Lab, a multi-venue learning lab that experiments with how art is imagined, made, viewed, and understood.
