Workshop and talk/performance by Pamela Z a success
Organized by the F&PA Council with the support of all F&PA departments and the Office of the Dean, the celebrated and “extremely hyphenated” composer, performer and interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z visited campus on Aug. 26.
This highly successful event involved a workshop with students in the afternoon, followed by an evening lecture with some performance components by intermedia artist Pamela Z, who spoke about “her work, her process and the increasingly blurred lines between disciplines in her practice,” according to a prepared statement from the Office of Communication & Marketing. “Highlighting her use of voice, processing, gesture-based MIDI controllers, video, found objects, and sampled speech sounds,” Pamela Z illustrated “the various directions her work has taken over the years” and also discussed her current projects.
The aim of the event was to bring together all F&PA departments, given Pamela Z’s work involving various media, and to further our support of artists of all backgrounds as part of our DEIA initiative.
Pamela Z has composed scores for dance, film, and chamber ensembles (including Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird). Her awards include the Rome Prize, United States Artists, the Guggenheim, Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Herb Alpert Award.
