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Performance
Performance students at the School draw their materials and imagery
from the disciplines of painting, sculpture, theater, dance, music,
written- and spoken-word, history, anthropology, and sound while expanding
traditional approaches to those art forms. The performance department,
one of few such programs in the nation, creates an atmosphere where
students can investigate a variety of performance issues and modes and
expand those ideas into new territories. It allows students to explore
the personal, the conceptual, the political, and the technological implications
of performance art and to push the boundaries of a form that extends
from rituals to conceptual forms, earthworks to multimedia events, cabaret
to spectacles.
In the past, students have worked with artists Meredith Monk, Ping Chong,
Robert Wilson, Alwin Nikolais, Merce Cunningham, Eiko and Koma, Dumb
Type, Tim Etchells, and Janie Geiser. Many graduate students work with
their own performance companies or perform individually in one of the
many galleries and spaces in Chicago’s vital performance community
while completing the degree.
Equipment and facilities include:
80’ x 40’ x 16’ multiuse space with projection booth
containing programmable 54-instrument lighting system, 6-channel audio
reproduction system with DAT, Yamaha effects, and multitrack recording
and editing with Pro Tools software, clearlight MP3 with six ektagraphic
slide projectors, 16mm projector; Super VHS video camera; graduate studio
equipped with lighting system, video deck and monitor, and stereo audio
system video projector, CD recorders, G4 system, DV cameras, custom-designed
software for sound/video performance.
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