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_ cummulative conversations @ farragut high school, chicago, il 2009
Lead Artists: Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein and Mike Bancroft in partnership with the MCA and arts educators Maija Swanson and Amanda Nadig.
OVERVIEW
In this workshop series, Farragut artists/educators and students continue to investigate the power and sometimes failure of communication to express personal and political thought and feeling. How do we know what we believe? Who and what influences our evolving belief systems? Even when we are certain of our beliefs, what prevents or supports the expression of our views in public spaces? What risks do we take when we publicize personal feelings and views in public spaces? How do beliefs unite or divide a school community? Ultimately, what inhibits or promotes the shift from belief to action – and how do our beliefs fall in or out of sync with action? Questions are at the heart of this investigation – generated as both a framework and as content for visual and sonic projections and installations.
OUR PROCESS:
Through an intensive study of text & image, text as image, and text as sound, we’ll explore the relationships between belief and action, provoking new thinking on perspective taking, tensions between the private and public, and the overall impact of text in multiple forms placed and experienced in unconventional spaces. We’ll generate poetic text and transform it into visual and sonic experiences in public spaces. We’ll also weave in an element of dialogue and reflection throughout the entire workshop series. Students will produce t-shirts, sound experiments, and public text installations using a variety of media.
BIG IDEAS
Identity & Community
Text, Sound, Image
The Failure of Communication
Personal Beliefs/Public Beliefs
Building Community
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
What do we believe? What are the influences that shape our identities & beliefs?
How do we express our beliefs and how do we handle the failures of communication?
How do I communicate my beliefs in public spaces to protest and/or question reality?
How do my beliefs contradict my actions and vice versa?
How can I use language in new ways to express my ideas and the ideas of my peers?
What are the questions that define my generation?
