Interdisciplinary Performance Research Group

This group aims to create collaborative projects across the arts and humanities departments, bringing together students to engage with critical theory through the creation of art presented publicly. The goal is to hold biweekly internal discussions and workshops, and to put on a quarterly public performance around a critical issue, where we bring our work to the San Diego public to bolster the artistic community around the university.

FIRST MEETING OCTOBER 10th, 2019

During our first meeting we went around the room and had everyone introduce themselves and their work. We had gathered a good interdisciplinary group with people from three departments and four programs. We explained the goal of our research group and defined the members as the organising committee of our event on November 20th. Then we decided what the theme of the performance would be, we had outline three possible topics: difference, translation and power dynamics. One of the members had been working on translation: translating language into cloth and translating verbal memories into physical objects. One of our founding members, Adriana, was also working in translation and was editor of a translation magazine so we quickly identified this theme as the most appropriate one. We all gathered our knowledge on the topic of translation and described projects we were working on which could incorporate this topic. One of our members then described a text she was working on which she couldn’t translate, it was a text on translation and textiles which was only available in French, we decided that for the next meeting we would create a group translation as some of us could speak some french, but none of us are very confident French speakers. We concluded the meeting with this plan for the next meeting.