College of Liberal Arts

Collaborative Arts Program

E211 Regis Center
405 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-625-5297
Fax: 612-625-7881
E-mail: cola@umn.edu

Fall 2007 Courses

Collaborative Arts courses are listed under the subject "Interdisciplinary Program in Collaborative Arts" at One Stop. The course designator for Collaborative Arts courses is COLA.

COLA 3011: Move to Question (CCR), 3 cr.

Lab I (Sept 4-14): Movement and Text
(Ain Gordon, David Gordon)
Investigating intentional and unintentional narrative in conjunction with classic and contemporary movement forms.

Lab II (Oct 15-26): In-between: Environment and Action
(Ann Carlson, Dana Reitz)
Human beings move in relation to many environments: the natural, the built, and the societal, both public and private. We will be working with the interplay of movement and context, with continually shifting focus.

Lab III (Nov 26-Dec 12): The practice of form
(Ralph Lemon, Eiko Otake)
Through a series of embodied studies, students will focus on constructing/refining individual and collaborative process as a method for revealing form and understanding the relationship between form and question.

COLA 3012: Crossing Boundaries to Imagine New Worlds

3 cr., T/Th 9:05-11:00 a.m., Rarig C90
(Michael Sommers)

In this course students will explore the boundaries and intersections where multiple art forms and practices converge. Students will collaborate to co-author and co-create a series of works for in-class and public performance. Emphasis will be on exploring the collaborative process and the possibilities of integrating visual art, music, theatre and dance to create interdisciplinary and collaborative thinking, art, and performance.

COLA 3014: Time: Cutting time, Hiding time, Revealing time

3 cr., M/W 9:05-11:00 a.m., Regis W131
(Ali Momeni)

The course investigates questions of time and time-perception as they pertain to the arts in general and to performance arts in particular. We draw on research and theoretical writing form cognitive and experimental psychology, philosophy, music theory and modern physics to study formal conceptions of the human experience of time.

COLA 5011: Flow and Gesture in the Art of Collaboration

M 02:30 p.m. - 04:25 p.m., F 01:25 p.m. - 02:15 p.m.; room 203 Ferguson Hall
(Guerino Mazzola)

The goal of this course is to provide students with the three fundamental factors of the art of collaboration: the flow of a distributed identity, the creative power of gesture, and the collaborative environment. The objective is to let the student make the experience of collaborative research upon literature for eleven important themes in the ambient space of a critical review.