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