Workshops
Explore the dynamic interplay of Performance and Photography with Jenny Calivas, creating a compelling portfolio and leaving with the confidence to delve further into performance-based art.
Dates:
Sep 10, 2024 - Oct 8, 2024
Levels:
Intermediate,
Advanced,
Workshop Fee: $575
Workshop Duration: 15 hours over 5 sessions (Tuesdays, 1-4pm ET)
Workshop Location: Online
Class Size: 10
Note: This workshop will be held in a live, online format utilizing the Zoom platform.
Class meets for 5 Tuesdays, Sep 10, 17, 24, Oct 1 & 8 from 9am-12pm ET.
This workshop is a deep dive into the relationship between Performance and Photography. We will focus on making our own images while also spending time looking at historic and contemporary examples of artists who perform for the camera as well as artists who take on the role of the director.
Why do artists choose to create images in this way? What was their context? How do things like framing and gesture influence the meaning of their images? Spending time with this history will inform and inspire our own work with performative image-making.
In the first weeks prompts will be given to spur experimentation, followed by time spent on developing a focused project of each student’s choosing. Critiques will be the core part of our growth together. Students can expect to leave with a small portfolio of powerful images and the confidence to continue exploring performance-based work on their own.
Any camera may be used – from a smartphone to a digital camera, to a film camera. There will not be much technical instruction as part of the workshop, so as long as students can easily share images that they have made, any camera is acceptable.
All images copyright Jenny Calivas.
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Instructor: Jenny Calivas
Jenny Calivas is an artist working with photography and performance. She makes her photographic work using analog processes and experimental darkroom techniques, prioritizing embodied ways of thinking and making. Her recent work consists of performative self-portraits as well as darkroom collages that investigate issues of agency and gender in relation to photography and the natural environment. Calivas’ photographs have been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; Light Work in Syracuse, NY; David Zwirner in New York City; LTD Los Angeles; Huxley Parlour in London and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, ME. She holds her MFA degree from Yale University and her undergraduate degree from The Evergreen State College. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art.