Embodying Visuality: A workshop in the praxis of performative imagery
Dr. Michael Sakamoto Phd
Tuesday 18th February, 1-4pm
Bangkok Code
Performance-based artists and creative laborers have the ability to contribute to and influence visual culture through multiple avenues, including not only traditional and contemporary experiential practices involving witnessing audiences, but also the production of mediated imagery and body-related objects. Similarly, visual artists are capable of producing imagery that reflects, comments upon, and likewise affects modes of embodying identity, culture, or social structures. Generally speaking, the investigation of artistic techniques, political strategies, social values, and cultural and historical influences underlying such practices holds the potential to inform our understanding of human nature, culture, and society—locally, globally, or otherwise.
This workshop is an introduction to the research-based approach of the instructor, Michael Sakamoto, to such understanding as well as a basic toolkit for devising frames of reference for envisioning connections among the body, visual culture, and language. Michael’s overlapping and symbiotic practices as a butoh-based dance theater artist, media artist, photographer, and performance and cultural studies scholar will serve as a model for how other interdisciplinary visual communicators may innovate methods and vocabularies specific to their own creative, social, and environmental context.
Workshop participants will combine personal and social narratives with forms and genres of physical-based performance, photography (digital or instant analog), and/or video in exercises that analyze the nature of perception and projection of identity in these media. In this way, we hope to unpack and/or remix how we embody and influence visual culture through our artistic practices rooted in individual idiosyncrasy and desire.
Michael leads the MfA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Godard College in the USA
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