Intermedia Student Work
Title: King Corn
Course: Intermedia I
Unit: Light and Shadow
Student: Chun Yeep Kong
Media: Installation and Performance
Dimensions: N/A
Date: Fall 2014
Brief Description: Kong created this installation as a comment on Iowa’s cash crop. Guests were prompted to throw popcorn at Kong who would meet them with his gaze.
Title: Three Secrets
Course: Intermedia I
Unit: Video
Student: Zora Murff
Media: Video
Time: 5:30"
Date: Spring 2015
Link: https://youtu.be/xJSvLuzZIL4
Brief Description: A spin off of religious confession, Zora wrote three secrets and with each one would drink water and purge himself.
Title: Living Dolls
Course: Intermedia I
Unit: Installation
Student: Yun Lin and Ryan Knoff
Media: Installation/Performance
Size: N/A
Date: Fall 2014
Brief Description: Lin and Knoff asked the audience to dress them in a variety of clothing, regardless of gender or societal norms. Participants then could take a photo of the pair to document the changes of clothing.
Title: Asexual Dodge Ball
Course: Intermedia I
Unit: Performance
Student: MP Wier
Media: Perfomance
Time: 5:15"
Date: Spring 2015
Link: https://youtu.be/anbhhK05jeg
Brief Description: Wier announced to the class that she was asexual and then had students either ask questions or read prompts that have been said to her. Once the student interacted with Wier, they would then throw the ball at her. Through MP's performance, she transformed from passive to assertive-- physically, visually and emotionally.
Title: Family Dinner
Course: Intermedia I
Unit: Installation
Student: Russell Bjork, Andrew Chupp, Alyse Higgins and Lexi Morsch
Media: Performance/Installation
Size: N/A
Date: Fall 2015
Brief Description: These four students created an immersive dining space in which they complicated the scene of a family dinner by only eating and serving guests artificial and unhealthy foods. They also used theater makeup to appear like "food zombies" in which the food had become part of their bodies.
Title: Makeover
Course: Intermedia I
Unit: Performance
Student: Becky Robinson
Media: Perfomance
Time: 6:47"
Date: Spring 2015
Link: https://youtu.be/Rg71ckASlpU
Brief Description: Robinson placed sticky notes on the wall and allowed her classmates to do her makeup with any prompt they chose.
Title: In the News
Course: Intermedia I
Unit: Video
Student: Peng Cheng
Media: Video
Time: 5:22"
Date: Spring 2015
Link: https://youtu.be/8e2Hm3szO3o
Brief Description: Cheng was concerned and overwhelmed by the world news he would watch and, at times, felt powerless. This piece is a response to apathy and feeling powerlessness in regards to current affairs.
Title: //scrolling
Course: Intermedia I
Unit: Video
Student: Ari Craven
Media: Video
Time: 3:31"
Date: Fall 2015
Link: https://youtu.be/uvfdRKF93B4
Brief Description: Craven explores connection, communication and technology in this poetic video performance.
Title: Covered in Consumption
Course: Intermedia I
Unit: Performance
Student: Eunice Kim
Media: Performance
Time: 5:02"
Date: Spring 2015
Link: https://youtu.be/CavTz3wGMqc
Brief Description: Kim allowed the audience to put spaghetti all over her body as she attempted to stay in a strong pose for the duration of the performance.
Title: The Porch
Course: Intermedia I
Unit: Video
Student: Ryan Knoff
Media: Video
Time: 3:44"
Date: Fall 2014
Link: https://youtu.be/tgG6KCjxM8M
Brief Description: Experimenting with light and shadow, Knoff created a surreal video in which a man cannot leave his porch.
