As part of Aynsley Vandenbroucke’s fall dance course “Power, Structure, and the Human Body,” artist Janani Balasubramanian leads a workshop entitled “Labor and the Creative Mind”on Thursday, November 10, in New South. An artist’s labor is necessary and constant, yet packed with uncertainties. This workshop lives in the terrifying space between the aspirational (dreams, wishes) and the practical (goals, time). Through a series of partner and group exercises, we’ll design work practices unique to our needs as individual artists—practices that sustain our productivity, but also keep us open to wide possibilities. The workshop begins at 12:30 p.m. is free and open to Princeton students, faculty and staff.
“From my youth on, my personal motto has been the old Latin tag, Festina lente, hurry slowly.”
— Italo Calvino
JANANI BALASUBRAMANIAN is a writer of speculative fiction whose art and editorial work has been featured in The New Yorker, Guernica, Creative Time Reports, The New Inquiry, and more. They’ve presented work at 160+ stages across North America and Europe, including The Public Theater, MOMA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Janani is currently working on Sleeper—a dystopian trilogy about sleep, dreams, and physics.
