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Postponed – How to be a Good Sport with Kristin McWharter
April 16 @ 6:00 pm– 8:00 pm EDT
Free – $10.00
Postponed – Stay tuned for the new date!
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 6–8 pm
Free or suggested donation
Open to ages 16+. All materials provided.
In this interactive workshop, Workspace Resident Kristin McWharter will coach participants as they design a new sport that responds to the unique skills, attributes, fears and desires of the collective participants. Kristin will first provide an introduction to different competitive game structures and discuss how aspects of these structures can act as metaphors for our behavior. Students will then collaboratively design their own sport and the workshop will conclude by playing the game and crowning the created sport’s first champion!
Biography of the instructor
Kristin McWharter uses performance and play to interrogate the relationship between competition and intimacy. Her work conjoins viewers within immersive sculptural installations and viewer- inclusive performances that critically fuse folk games within virtual and augmented worlds. Her software installations and performative objects incorporate experimental technologies and playful interaction to produce performances that speculate upon alternative forms of social behavior. Inspired by 20th century sports narrative, collective decision making, and technology as a contemporary spiritual authority, her work blurs the boundaries of intimacy and hype culture to challenge viewer relationships to affection and competitive drive. Her work has been exhibited at The Hammer Museum, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Bangkok Arts and Cultural Center, Ars Electronica, Museo Altillo Beni, and FILE Festival among others. McWharter received her MFA from UCLA in Design Media Arts and is currently an Assistant Professor in Art & Technology Studies at SAIC.
Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
