Performance as is, Performing with Yoonsik Chico Park moves from thinking about performance to thinking through it—using the body, space, gesture, and relationality as sites for inquiry. Building on our first Maktaba session’s exploration of performance studies, this seminar invites participants to collectively examine how theories of performance can be tested and embodied.

Through a combination of discussion, readings, and performance-based activities, participants will move between theory and practice, translate ideas into gestures, actions, scores, interactions, and durational exercises, as well as explore how meaning is created through the act of performing. 

The seminar will culminate in a series of shared exercises that invite participants to leave their mark through performance—individually and collectively—while reflecting on what performance can reveal, disrupt, or make possible within our social and cultural contexts.

Lunch will be provided, offering participants the opportunity to continue their conversations.

Accessibility & Participation

No prior experience is required.

Language: English

About the Instructor

Yoonsik Chico Park (b. 1998, Seoul) is an artist living and working in Abu Dhabi. Working across performance, installation, sculpture, and image, his practice examines individual agency within society, exploring how we could craft a more meaningful existence. He has presented practice-based research and performances at academic conferences such as Performance Studies international (PSi) and College Art Association (CAA) and has exhibited and screened work at 1604 Art Space, Bayt Al Mamzar, The Project Space (NYUAD Art Gallery), CICA Museum, and 526 W 114th Street. Chico was a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship (SEAF) and the NYU Abu Dhabi Postgraduate Research Fellowships. He holds a BA in Philosophy from NYU Abu Dhabi, where he studied Philosophy and Theater.