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Joshua Hoglund

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Joshua Hoglund (he/they) is a freelance director, performer and curator based in Chicago. His latest performance, Ode to the Living Tree and the Conference of Birds, premiered at Watershed Arts & Ecology in June 2024. Josh's work has been supported by grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs, as well as residencies and commissions from Links Hall, the Poets Theater Festival and the Rhinoceros Theater Festival in Chicago. Other projects have been presented at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Sector 2337; The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Clemente Solo Velez Cultural Center, Ohio Theater/Ice Factory Festival (New York); and The National Opera of Greece (Athens). As a technician, Josh worked extensively in New York, Chicago and on tour internationally in support of Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach), Druid Theater (Galway), Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Baryishnikov Arts Center, The Kitchen NYC, MCA Chicago and many more. Josh holds an MFA in Performance from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Drama from New York University. He currently teaches Event Production for the Performance Department and serves as the Technical Manager.

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EVENT/PRODUCTION is a collaborative workshop in which participants will self-produce two public performances. In this class we will hone our production skills to present and contextualize individual and group performances. Considering future-audiences, we will work through notions of genealogy, community/collectivity, and ¿the public'. Through collaborative research and by welcoming visiting performance practitioners, producers, and curators in the classroom, we will explore histories of DIY performance, artist-led spaces and institutionalized performance presented in the `Fine Art¿ context of the museum or gallery. Solo and group performance works will evolve through focused study of technical production skills including stage lighting, sound, cueing software (Qlab, OBS) and projection/live-feeds and streams. With emphasis on accessibility, we will program and present two public festivals of new performance.

Class Number

1794

Credits

3