Soundproof room for acoustical research, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images.
What spaces are most effective at nurturing creative projects that require dialogue among scholars and artists?
Six independent but linked initiatives will shape and support a culture of experimentation and critical analysis around arts research on campus.
Six independent but linked initiatives will shape and support a culture of experimentation and critical analysis around arts research on campus. Our projects include conceptual and practical workshops in opera; the creation of a Movement Theory Lab; a dance-theater adaptation of a classic dramatic text; workshopping a new musical with Court Theater; diversity initiatives in contemporary literary publishing; and renewed operations of the Black Cinema House, bringing UChicago faculty and visiting artists into conversation at the intersection of scholarly inquiry and artistic making. The labs will create space for the development of creative projects while fostering dialogue among scholars and artists (and artist-scholars) about the opportunities and challenges of artistic research.
Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts, Committee on Theater and Performance Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
University of Chicago
Leslie Buxbaum is a writer, director, and creator, often working on devised theater productions, which bring together different performance languages (dance-theater, circus-theater,...
Professor of Visual Arts and the College; Director of Arts + Public Life
University of Chicago
Theaster Gates is professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Gates creates work that focuses on space theory and land development, sculpture and performance. Drawing on his interest and...
Alice H. and Stanley G. Harris Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, Department of Cinema & Media Studies, the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, and the College
University of Chicago
David J. Levin is the Alice H. and Stanley G. Harris Distinguished Service Professor of Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. His work focuses on the aesthetics and politics of performance in opera, theater and cinema. From...
Associate Professor of English, Creative Writing, and Theater and Performance Studies; Affiliate Faculty, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
University of Chicago
Tina Post's research is preoccupied with racial performativity, especially (though not exclusively) the ways that black Americans perform racial identity. What modes of embodiment assert belonging or dis-belonging, and how? When do racialized subjects confirm and when do they subvert the...
Professor of English and Creative Writing
University of Chicago
Srikanth Reddy is a poet and literary editor interested in poetry across a range of forms, historical periods, and regions. His latest book of poetry, Underworld Lit, was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s T.S. Eliot Four Quartets...
Director of the Dance Program and Assistant Senior Instructional Professor, Committee on Theater and Performance Studies
University of Chicago
Julia Rhoads is the founding Artistic Director of Chicago-based Lucky Plush Productions, a dance-theater company that creates original productions with a signature blend of technical...
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This Humanities Day discussion will explore the aims and activities of the Arts Labs research project at the Neubauer Collegium.
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This Humanities Day discussion will explore the aims and activities of the Arts Labs research project at the Neubauer Collegium.
