Mar 13, 2014
March: Performance Art
This month the Teen Insiders Project discussed performance art. We looked briefly to the past, starting with the Futurists. Mainly though, we thought about performance art as it is today. We talked to Patrick Melroy, artist and founder of Uppur Bunk, the art collective that stages neo-happenings around town and participatory art performances.
For our hands-on field trip we worked with the contemporary theatre company Proximity. The Insiders utilized their bodies as a medium for expression by translating their own ideas and writing into movement, and bravely "performed" in front of the group. Here are some images to prove it...