Abandoned Practices Institute
Chicago 2019
June 17 - July 5

This 3-week summer intensive looks forward by looking backward, researching, enacting, and embodying practices that for one reason or another have been disregarded in the wake of progress, and relegated to the archives of history.

Students will participate in the event with individual and collaborative projects involving writing, installation, documentation, and live performance. Teachers and visiting scholars will lecture on related subjects.

Available for credit and non-credit enrollment.

Abandoned practices constitutes an emerging field of inquiry pioneered by Alan Read of King’s College, London, author of Theatre, Intimacy, and Engagement: The Last Human Venue (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). The course focus will allow a thematic meeting place that confronts the common accelerated temporalities of the 21st century, whether in the form of economic and artistic globalization, technologies ceaseless upgrade, or the general shifts in understanding the word local.

The course does not propose that we share a mutual past, but rather that we might mutually discover a shared strategy of thinking about our pasts, a strategy of reimagining and reenacting the different abandoned practices that once defined the ordinary.

Instructors:
Matthew Goulish: Writing
Lin Hixson: Performance
Mark Jeffery: Performance

2019 Visiting Lecturers:
Judith Leemann, Professor Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Kenneth Bailey - Design Studio for Social Intervention, Sector Organizing and Strategy Lead
Branislav Jakovljevic, Professor and Department Chair, Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University

Registration 2019:
SAIC student Registration begins 18th March 2019
Non SAIC Registration begins 25th March 2018

Tuition:
SAIC for credit tuition:
Undergraduate - $4,491 ($1,497 per credit x 3 credit hours)
Graduate - $4,740 ($1,580 per credit hour x 3 credit hours)
Non-credit tuition for 3.00 units:  $2,997. Continuing Studies course number: #1356

Credits:
3 credits STUDIO (4000-level)

Non-SAIC students: Abandoned Practices Institute is also available for non-credit registration to participants outside of SAIC.
Student-At-Large registration form
Application for Summer Housing for Non-Degree Seeking Students