Body Politic

Body Politic

Body Politic is an intensive laboratory and learning community for people who want to forge connections between their somatic selves and social change.

Many of us find that our art-making or physical practices lie separate from our concerns about what is happening in the world. Body Politic brings those things together. This amalgam of movement workshops, activist teach-ins, cohort dialogues, how-to sessions, and independent projects addresses that separation and seeks to unite the thinking body, the moving body, and the activist body in one learning experience. It is a place to think physically, connect with colleagues and collaborators, and together interrogate the question: how do I become the change I want to see while keeping my body at the forefront of my practice?

Participants can engage with Body Politic through two tracks:

Month-Long Intensive Laboratory: July 9 – August 4, 2018. Participants receive free tuition and a $500 artist-activist stipend.
Extended Play: Includes the above dates plus continued project work through November 2018. Participants receive free tuition and a $750 artist-activist stipend.

The application for 2018 is now closed.

Body Politic is made possible through generous support from the Bay and Paul Foundations.

Photo by Bronwen Gilbert.