Is your Alfred life an unending blur of gray slush and tedious blue screen headaches? Are you dressed slovenly in untailored rags? CAMP! is your cure. Our goal is, as define by Mark Booth, “to present oneself as being committed to the marginal with a commitment greater than the marginal merits. We will practice fully committed self-presentation. In CAMP!, we want to go full out and explore the expressions and the experiences of an aesthetic of artifice, in fashion, films, life, music, novels, and theater internationally. As seen at the Met's Costume Institute and Gala 2019, camp is a social practice of ostentation and theatricality that celebrates exaggerated performance. We will immerse ourselves in thirteen unique examples of camp. The Alfred Honors students will design a project that embraces camp's love of the unnatural as explained by Susan Sontag. Can you take CAMP! far enough?
Prerequisites
Be in the Honors Program
Semester Offered
Offer With sufficient demand