- Saturday, March 28, 2015
- 11:15 AM–12:30 PM
- CFAC 115
Freestyle and Justice: The Improvisation of Care
Poetry is musical language, an alternative way of experiencing our environment. By using Ephesians 2 as a model for improvisational poetry, we will look at how “freestyle” can increase our capacity for care and justice. The workshop will be a brief intro to improvisational poetry and include a mixture of ideas, techniques, and exercises.
Presenter Bio:
Billy Mark is an experimental interdisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in the art of freestyle. Based in improvisational poetry, his work mines the relationship between the conceptual and the physical, and extends to areas of music, theater, sculpture, movement and installation. His current work explores the production of improvisational books and other longer, multi-discipline forms of improvisation. A graduate from the California Institute of the Arts with BFA in Musical Arts, his writing has been published in The Guidebook of Alternative Nows, SEEN magazine, and his work has been performed at REDCAT (L.A.), Spiel Festival (Austria), Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Playhouse (Detroit), and Bushwick Open Studios (NY).
