2023 Undergraduate Student Work Exhibition
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Who is kept safe in Washington Square?
For our final, Isaac Silber gave us the option to: “plan and execute a performance, located in New York City.” Preceding that, I attended a wheatpasting workshop hosted by Rent Refusers Network, East Village Mutual Aid, and Tompkins Homeless Collective. I had also just read Emily Kies Folpe’s It Happened on Washington Square (2002) where she describes the history of the park.
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Sex in Public
After assigning D. Soyini Madison’s “Performing Theory/Embodied Writing,” Professor Sansonetti asked us each to write a short play that “performed” a critical theory text in the same way. For me, the first text to come to mind was “Sex in Public,” written by Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, a seminal text in queer theory that I encountered in an English department course on obscenity.
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Alexis' Glam Rock Show
Alexis' Glam Rock Show" was created for a Performative Writing Workshop assignment to create a collage based on Amy Kilagard’s essay “Collage: A Paradigm for Performance Studies”. The piece embodies my idea of transformation, which is a key part of collage and performance art.
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The Viper Drops and Dances
“The Viper Drops and Dances” was written for a Performative Writing Workshop assignment to write about a musical performance by a diva and how her voice performs.
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