Confusion︎︎︎
Confusion: Great high energy game to help participants
begin to feel more comfortable in new group. Give each participant a sheet with
various tasks and ask them to complete it when you say, “GO!” Here is a sample:
• Get a male to do five push-ups and sign here
• Stand on one foot with your arms outstretched for 20 seconds. Have someone time you and sign here.
• Leap frog over someone 5 times
• Get someone to whisper the pledge of allegiance and sign here
• Play “Ring around the Rosy” with two other people and have them sign here
• Get a female to recite a nursery rhyme
• Shake hands with someone you do not know and continue holding hands while debating the merits of your favorite ice cream flavor
• Have someone teach you a dance step (even if they make it up)
First person to complete the entire sheet wins.
• Get a male to do five push-ups and sign here
• Stand on one foot with your arms outstretched for 20 seconds. Have someone time you and sign here.
• Leap frog over someone 5 times
• Get someone to whisper the pledge of allegiance and sign here
• Play “Ring around the Rosy” with two other people and have them sign here
• Get a female to recite a nursery rhyme
• Shake hands with someone you do not know and continue holding hands while debating the merits of your favorite ice cream flavor
• Have someone teach you a dance step (even if they make it up)
First person to complete the entire sheet wins.
Welcome to mapping collaboration, a toolbox for workshopping and creating across disciplines...
In spite of a long history of interdisciplinary creation, from our earliest recorded arts to our present moment, artistic pedagogy has created divisions between disciplines. This has left artists in a "post-Babel" condition where we don't share the same language and definitions. It’s also encouraged artists to develop practices for devising, creating and composing work that are distinct to their disciplines.
In spite of a long history of interdisciplinary creation, from our earliest recorded arts to our present moment, artistic pedagogy has created divisions between disciplines. This has left artists in a "post-Babel" condition where we don't share the same language and definitions. It’s also encouraged artists to develop practices for devising, creating and composing work that are distinct to their disciplines.
The inspiration for this project came from faculty and students at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts where BFA, MFA and PhD programs in Dance, Theatre Production and Design, Visual Art, Film, and Music and Sound all work together in studio settings and playfully experiment with processes of art-making.
We wanted to create a database of projects, assignments and theory that we collect inside the studio and from research happening in other places. We are curious about how we collaborate and how structures reoccur, translate and deviate from one discipline to another.
Composition is central to these processes and offers a base for our approaches and experiments. We are excited about what our students are doing and inspired by the new languages in contemporary art and performance we continue to see develop.
︎︎︎select a category above to build assignments, learn more about how artists process ideas across disciplines and to create a collaborative process of your own
︎︎︎these tools are collected and used in workshops and classes; some are resources from artists; some are quotes about art-making and how bodies think and listen; others are ideas to expand and disrupt your own training and processes.
︎︎︎Each idea is intentially short- and not meant to be executed as written, but to be adapted to your own practice and specific project/context. Some may be taken in parts or combined with others to spark new ways of training and making together.
︎︎︎submit your own ideas and tools so we can keep building this site!
︎︎︎select a category above to build assignments, learn more about how artists process ideas across disciplines and to create a collaborative process of your own
︎︎︎these tools are collected and used in workshops and classes; some are resources from artists; some are quotes about art-making and how bodies think and listen; others are ideas to expand and disrupt your own training and processes.
︎︎︎Each idea is intentially short- and not meant to be executed as written, but to be adapted to your own practice and specific project/context. Some may be taken in parts or combined with others to spark new ways of training and making together.
︎︎︎submit your own ideas and tools so we can keep building this site!
