IN AND OUT OF A RUT: GETTING STUCK AS CREATIVE PRACTICE

As artists we encounter walls of inflexibility, frustration, and unattainable expectation–writer’s block, sticky muscle memory, and dull material. These blocks can be difficult to contend with, as they oppose capitalist cultural notions of productivity and time scarcity. During Call Your Mom’s near 10 years working as a collective, we hit inevitable periods of both high and low inspiration, realizing over and over that getting stuck is not a hindrance, but a condition of being an artist. The course curriculum and CYM’s process are informed by the challenges of virtual collaboration. Stemming from their experience working across time zones, the collective will share exercises, games and research methods that aim to take the doom out of Zoom!
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By encountering limitations and cross-media restrictions, participants will play with stuckness, explore common ruts in their practice, and collaborate to form and break restraints.  Participants will be asked to experiment with unexpected materials and modes of creation. We especially welcome artists who are in a rut!

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Call Your Mom is a performance collective formed in 2014 by Emma Bergman, Elif Cadoux, Sophie Goldberg, and Mia Massimino. Known for interdisciplinary, immersive works, Call Your Mom uses video, installation, movement, and participatory performance to facilitate reflective spaces for ourselves and our audiences. Call Your Mom has produced numerous curriculums on collective practices and theatrical tools for political engagement, with workshops at Indiana University at Bloomington, the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Lumina Studio Theatre, and Quito American School.  call-your-mom.com
Image credit: Fernanda Ruiz
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 PM EST
​Online on Zoom
120 minute sessions, 4 weeks
August 5th-26th, 2024
$125 - $375 Tuition
Select scholarships and solidarity rate discounts available upon request.