Artist Workshop: The Political Performative Object with Jess Perlitz
In this workshop, artist and Tyler alum Jess Perlitz (MFA '09) will lead an exploration of the political and performative lives of objects. Through a series of exercises and related discussions, we will consider experience, theory, and studio practice as it relates to thinking about the political and performative in art-making. Participants should bring an object, a notebook and a pen.
Following the workshop, Perlitz will give a Critical Dialogue lecture at 6:00 p.m. in ARCH 104.
Jess Perlitz is an interdisciplinary artist who studies landscape and how the human body finds a place within it. Desire, incongruity, and disruption are all major themes of her work, and her pieces have appeared in playgrounds, fields, galleries, and major museums such as the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and Cambridge Galleries in Canada. Perlitz received her undergraduate degree from Bard College and her MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.