Jon McKenzie
I am Professor of Practice in English at Cornell University, USA. I trained as an artist and theorist and have worked as an information architect in NYC's Silicon Alley. I orient myself as an experimental researcher and teacher of emergent cultural practices. My books, essays, videos, multimedia presentations, courses, workshops, and especially the collaborative media initiatives and interdisciplinary networks through which I work constitute a program of applied research in cultural, technological, and organizational performance, instantiated in the global institution of higher education. Over the past twenty years, I have developed a pedagogy called StudioLab that mixes conceptual, aesthetic, and technical learning in learning environments that combine seminar, studio, and lab work so that students can engage social problems out in the field: communities, organizations, and their everyday lives.
Address: 250 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201 USA
Address: 250 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201 USA
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Jon McKenzie, Bryan Reynolds, Leeny Sack, Saviana Stanescu
Performing Grounds Forum, Theater & Architecture Working Group, , Prague Quadrennial, June 15, 2023
Flash talk abstract: The multimedia performance LifeLines explores creation in the age of Cultural Intelligence Agencies. Director Bryan Reynolds, noted New York playwright Saviana Stanescu, performance artist Leeny Sack, and transmedia dramaturg Jon McKenzie set their untimely acts of assembly in caves, catacombs, and subway stations in order to stage the abyssal, mise en scene, structure of contemporary life, what Sloterdijk terms our "vita performativa." A series of midwives -Madame Blavatsky, analyst Sigmund Freud, Herodotus, an icy Scythian Amazon, Jaroslav the Wise, Jane Challenger-slyly guide the audience-assemblage through different birth scenes offering up pluriversal interpretations and stylistic interventions across dramatic, philosophical, autobiographic, and choreographic genres.