PPP's Fridays@2: A Conversation with Dylan McLaughlin

Join PPP's Fridays@2 speaker series for a discussion with UT Austin Provost's Early Career Fellow in Fine Arts, Dylan McLaughlin.

The Performance as Public Practice graduate area of the Department of Theatre and Dance celebrates its 20th anniversary with a year-long celebration of engaging the arts. Starting last spring and continuing into the fall, Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series will feature discussions from a number of alumni and arts leaders. More celebratory events continue into the fall with an event recognizing the accomplishments of Performance as Public Practice faculty, students and alumni. 

In its first two decades, the Performance as Public Practice graduate area has contributed to the fields of theatre, dance, performance, performance studies, theatre studies, dance studies and arts leadership on an international scale by fostering citizen-artist-scholars. Graduates of the program have gone on to teach at major universities, publish books, produce new works for the stage and serve as leaders in a myriad of ways. 

About Dylan McLaughlin

Dylan McLaughlin is a sound and video artist and educator, looking critically to sites of extraction, exploring multi-layered weavings of understanding and complexity. In his multi-media installation, interactive and performative works, McLaughlin looks to engage the poetics and politics of relations to land. In 2016, he co-founded art collective Winter Count with artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. McLaughlin is a recipient of the Fulcrum Fund grant, and has done residencies at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Slow Research Lab, and BoxoPROJECTS. He received his B.F.A. in New Media Art from the Institute of American Indian Arts and completed his Master of Fine Arts in Art & Ecology at the University of New Mexico.

Previously, working as a filmmaker with environmentally focused organizations immersed McLaughlin in storytelling protocol. Being raised on the Navajo Nation and having since lived elsewhere, he has developed a complex view on impacts of legacies of extraction. His practice is rooted in place-based and land-responsive sound art, engaging through new media and performance the concepts that plants produce and detect frequencies for root growth and distress calls and how human beings have disrupted this landscape communication with resonant infrastructure and deforestation.

It is from the complexity of interpretation, subjectivity of improvisation, that we begin dialogue around how we establish our practice of place.

- Dylan McLaughlin 

DATE

October 14 at 2:00 p.m.
WIN 2.112

A virtual option for attending this session is available via Zoom.

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This event is free and open to the public.