Workshops

The Making of Soup

Instructor: Lital Dotan

A comprehensive performance art workshop introducing the Glasshouse Principles to balancing an enduring performance practice utilizing the domestic sphere.

10 meetings online, June 3- July 3, 2024

Mondays & Wednesdays 5-7p

$250 with sliding scale options

In sharing the Glasshouse Principles we wish to nourish artists and creatives interested in performance art with an effective toolset and critical discourse, while developing their body of work in the field.

Through circulating between four core elements of the Glasshouse Principles- The Daily Routine, One To One Performance, Homage Performance and The 24h Performance- we will relate to core elements in the life and process of a performance artist, in methodic forms. We do this while embracing the simplicity and specificity of one’s domestic space. This pedagogy which we have been practicing and teaching for over 20 years, considers performance art as a form and an ecology of constant movement. It looks at the work of a performance artist as an ongoing exchange in relation with self and community, environment and site, while being in time.

During the 5 week online workshop participants will learn from the history of the medium through doing, develop their individual voice and performance portfolio in relation to current time and site, understand endurance in practice and theory, and embody a collective way of thinking, organizing, supporting and staying in performance art together.  

About the instructor-

Lital Dotan is a visual performance artist and scholar based in New York. She is the co-founder and Executive Artistic Director of Glasshouse Project since 2007.

From Moments to Monuments 

A journey in time, observing the shaping of iconic moments in American collective memory, and visiting photographic monuments as history performed to the camera 

Instructor: Eyal Perry

6 meetings online, Tuesdays, May 28- July 2, 5pm (90 minutes)

$90 for the series

Week 1- The Last Frontier: The “Wild West” and the role of photography in creating the “American Cowboy” identity 

Week 2- The birth of a nation: The civil war as an unfolding drama and the role of new photographic aesthetics in shaping the public awareness, narratives and national consciousness

Week 3- The Social Awakening: The voice of photographers in movements for social justice, humanism and narrating the ‘other’ in American culture

Week 4- This American LIFE: America in a magazine - From Life magazine and the photo essay to the printed vision of the American dream and its heroes

Week 5- The Public Era: Performative iconography of protest, turbulence, search for identity and the voice of the masses- a generation of diverse forces, orchestrated by the camera

Week 6- Suburban America: The shift from city centers to the backyard of American living reconstruct the photographic fabric of the nation

About the instructor:

Eyal Perry is a photographer, educator and co-founder of Glasshouse Project.  He is a senior lecturer of photography and the co-founder of the Photo-Therapy graduate program in Musrara- a multidisciplinary school for art and society in Jerusalem. Eyal also leads walking tours and lectures around urban socio-cultural histories, he is an avid collector of ancient cultural artifacts and is an archiving enthusiast.