Performance where? Moving bodies and other spaces

Please join us for the premiere screening of fifteen short student films produced for the Cornell AAP Visual Representation elective course, Performance where? Moving bodies and other spaces. Students were asked to reflect on the built environment and the architectural process to direct their analytical talents towards new, cross-disciplinary ends. How do architects versus choreographers think? What does it mean to choreograph architecturally; to design choreographically? What do we gain from examining the human-place interface through the lens of bodies in cities, in landscapes, as accumulations, and as machines?

For their final project, students created their own gestural cinema to explore a physical site through the choreography of bodies and camera shots. They were asked: how can movement comment on place as both a site of physical matter and discursive space? How does one unravel place in site?
 
This event was organized by the course instructor, Hanna Tulis, with the generous support of the Cornell Council for the Arts.