performance

student responses to a live art assignment asking them to activate a space on north campus using themselves in relation to place, people and/or objects, and motivated by issues they discussed and wrote about in small groups prior to developing their performance

Strings Attached

Live performance at the Engineering School conveying control from "higher authorities" and subsequent loss of control

Nessie

Confined

Live performance by four students in a display case at the School of Art & Design addressing the issue of prison confinement without rehabilitation.

Make Us Art

Live performance at the School of Art & Design, first floor corridor, inviting passers-by to "Make Us Art" with subtle reference to works by Abramovic and Ono in which viewers become the performers

audio

List Magic Lists fill our lives, offering the promise of order. Lists can also be rich narrative and poetic devices. For this project your challenge is to record and edit a short but vivid audio piece in the form of a list using only sounds and voices you have recorded yourself using the Zoom H2.

Unknown Track - Unknown Artist

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Vox Humana (Voice Collage) Create an audio collage, based on your recordings of three people with contrasting voices, each interpreting a text you have “re-assembled.” Your goal is a sonically engaging piece, from start to finish. Record with the Zoom H2, and then edit/layer in Final Cut X.

Audio Dada - E. Schau

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Melanie Manos

visual + performance artist

Melanie Manos
Detroit, Michigan, US
Materia Gallery, Detroit

performance

student responses to a live art assignment asking them to activate a space on north campus using themselves in relation to place, people and/or objects, and motivated by issues they discussed and wrote about in small groups prior to developing their performance

audio

List Magic Lists fill our lives, offering the promise of order. Lists can also be rich narrative and poetic devices. For this project your challenge is to record and edit a short but vivid audio piece in the form of a list using only sounds and voices you have recorded yourself using the Zoom H2.

Vox Humana (Voice Collage) Create an audio collage, based on your recordings of three people with contrasting voices, each interpreting a text you have “re-assembled.” Your goal is a sonically engaging piece, from start to finish. Record with the Zoom H2, and then edit/layer in Final Cut X.