ARTFUL RESISTANCE: DEFINING THE SELF AGAINST INFLUENCE
Ages 16-29
Spring 2024, Online
In this interdisciplinary distance learning workshop, student fellows will consider art-making as a practice of resistance. Through writing exercises and discussion, they'll identify what influences them, from political agendas and cultural norms, to family and social circles, to their own unconscious routines or patterns; and they'll consider what they want to embrace and what they want to resist. In a time when relationships and self-images may be defined by attention given to and through digital communication and social and news media platforms, they'll consider how they pay attention, and also how they might exert attention. How might we as artists wield our attention as a tool of resistance, or direct the attention of others towards what is meaningful to us? They'll study examples of art as resistance, and through creative writing, photography, and video explore how to direct their attention, how to find and feel their own voices in the din. Final projects may be short documentary films, experimental videos, animation, spoken word performances, or a combination of these things. Their work will be shared on the program website and at a public exhibition. Limited to 14 student fellows.
Caroline Preziosi is a poet, artist, and educator. She is currently studying at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and splitting her time between the Midwest and her home in Baltimore.
