Latino/a Performance (336-0-1)

Instructors

Gabriel Andres Guzman

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 2-339: Tues, Thurs 11:00AM - 12:20PM

Overview of class

This course is available for undergraduate students only. Graduate students may not register for this course. How do stories of home show up on/in our bodies and what happens when we take them with us? This class considers the home as a valuable site of knowledge production, considering how personal narrative, objects, and sensations inform our understandings and experiences of race and gender. Through the use of storytelling and mixed media art-making, students will build their own archives to understand how the political works in/on our own bodies. We will engage with queer of color critique, borderland studies, performance theory, and ethnic studies to examine the importance of artistic intervention in disrupting the border between the personal and the political. Students can expect to engage in artistic practices such as photography, DJing, film, collage, and zines among other media. The course will conclude with a final creative project.