FYSP 101 - Telling Your Story in Performance

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
In 1909, F.T. Marinetti started a riot that destroyed a Vienna theater, the first of many events that would ultimately bring Italy into the second World War. In 1990, Holly Hughes’ tales of feminist approaches to sexuality were regarded as so obscene that the United States would forever stop issuing federal grants to individual artists. In 2014-15, Emma Sulkowicz carried a 50-lb mattress wherever they went to draw attention to their university’s failure to hold their assailant responsible. These artists shaped the world around them through the stories they told. Through collaborative writing and performance, students enrolled in this course will explore the aesthetics of avant-garde artists like the aforementioned, and turn their own life stories into meaningful performances. Your history, life experiences, abilities, and perspective of the world are patently yours; the autobiographical stories that you tell from your unique vantage are revolutionary.