title: Stand-up teacher
media: video, performance, knitting
duration: 4m 54s
2022, screened at First-year graduate students’ reading at Mccormack theater, Brown university
description: stand-up teacher is an experiment in deliberately confusing the roles of teacher and stand-up comedian, to explore the intersections of the uses of humor and instruction. the work draws parallels between audience and students, and subverts the expectations of (student/audience) participation by offering closed, impossible invitations. what does a pedagogical practice have to learn from a practice of comedy, and vice versa? where do i, specifically, exist between the two? and why, after all, did the chicken cross the road?