I call my efforts an institute to emphasize their collaborative nature, and their basis in a spirit of inquiry. I identify my work as somatic and aesthetic to signal the importance of sensory, embodied and non-linear kinds of knowledge. I align myself with critical thinking to show my ongoing concern with equitable distribution of social and political power.
My Performance Studies dissertation (2012) is available for free online at ProQuest UMI. The title is Process-Based Aesthetics in a Product-Based World: Somatic Awareness as a Critical Lens on Art-Making and Money-Making in the Modern West.
Individual chapters and sections, and other essays and notes, are available here. All writings are copyrighted by Nina Galin.
My Performance Studies dissertation (2012) is available for free online at ProQuest UMI. The title is Process-Based Aesthetics in a Product-Based World: Somatic Awareness as a Critical Lens on Art-Making and Money-Making in the Modern West.
Individual chapters and sections, and other essays and notes, are available here. All writings are copyrighted by Nina Galin.