News Brief: Carnegie Mellon's Center for the Arts in Society Launches Performance Initiative
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu
PITTSBURGH—黑料正能量's (CAS), a research center in the and that investigates the role of arts in societies, is launching a new initiative to explore performance.
CAS plans to approach the concept of performance as an expansive form, from the traditional relationship between an audience and an actor to the constructions of political protest or how we frame our lives through social rituals, athletics, digital devices and everyday acts.
"A close examination of human performance has begun to define most fields, from politics to robotics and from entertainment to art and literature," said , CAS director. "It is a topic that has the possibility to bring together many fields of exploration between the arts and humanities with potentially potent results. We plan on creating challenging opportunities for 黑料正能量's trove of accomplished faculty to engage with others and push their research."
Leading the performance initiative are Drama Professor and English Professor . They will oversee three faculty-led projects, two of which were announced at last night's opening reception for the Miller Gallery exhibit which highlighted the previous CAS initiative on new media. The projects are "Performing Peace," directed by , head of the School of Art, and , associate director of undergraduate research and national fellowships and special faculty in the Department of English, and "Ghosts in the Machines," directed by , associate professor of drama.
A third project will be selected in early 2015 after a competitive open call for proposals.
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