Comments | peachkabob: 2 things, and a plea for thoughts/ideas!

peachkabob

2 things, and a plea for thoughts/ideas!

Nov 19, 2010 15:16

One: Help! How do I make sustainability a performing art? I might be designing my own class in sustainability (continuity between past-present-future) as an elective next year, but I have to turn it into a performing arts-like class. I was thinking like... how art can be an agent for social change/commentary... but that's a tricky line since ( Read more... )

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suri_the_cuckoo November 19 2010, 23:12:17 UTC

1. Sustainability through the arts sounds amazing! Perhaps when you pitch it to your supervisor, can you say that you will look at and teach about the use of arts throughout history to educate people. Passion plays have been performed for such a long time to educate about the crucifixion. The Crucible was a commentary on McCarthyism and of course there are millions of more examples. So you could make the point that while the course is going to focus on sustainability, it will also be educating in general about the use of art in education and politics ( ... )

milkyrosie November 20 2010, 01:51:52 UTC

I recently made a pair of earings out of pictures of CFLs cut from a lightbulb box.

Dump out a dumpster on stage and sort through it to pick out all the recycling. You need to have the right music in the background. Maybe MGMT "Kids." Take only what you need. That's what sustainability is all about.

Do you remember the water bottle art piece that SEAC did?

Recycled musical instruments.

My mother makes windchimes out of melted bottles.

The carbon cycle as interpretive dance.

DANCING BICYCLES!!!!

Where your food comes from: a play. A musical? Old McDonald had a farm, EIEIO

A dramatic reading of John Muir. Preformed in a tree during a thunderstorm. (bet your boss would like that)

I can't wait till I"m home!

mmommcat November 24 2010, 13:21:15 UTC

I like those ideas a lot. And also, fashion design with reclaimed objects. A performance-art fashion display of clothing made from: newspapers, plastic bottles or cans, discarded school paper.

Oh, performance: Tape all the discarded paper together and make the whole group hold it like a parachute in the middle of the lobby. Or a maypole.

Google the work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

Have the kids perform a dramatization of a landfill, playing a trash item of their choosing, with dialog. Or they can play solar panels and windmills.