BA in Individualized Studies Program
I am an interdisciplinary writer, educator and photographer/visual conceptualist who works in the traditions of artist and scholar. My practice is informed by the multiple/hybrid applications and urgencies of critical analysis, social responsibility, race, gender, sexual identities and media. I know, I know, those issues that often generate the most violent reactions or utter ambivalence. My writings have been published and performed in the United States and internationally. Fun places for the most part. They cross genres and disciplines in the creation of performance and dramatic texts, essays, fiction, poetry and multimedia driven projects. Under construction: Sacred/Pretty/Smart, a new book that explores the relationship between creativity and sacred practices. My most recent book, Dust: murmurs and a play, (Evolutionary Girls 2008) is a collection of essays and the performance text of my play Dust, that examines global terror, love and healing during and in the aftermath of 9-11. Pending publication is Seens From the Unexpectedness of Love, a play of mime and masks. Although it has been important to maintain boundaries between what I refer to as “my day job” and my performance endeavors, I strive to be “creative” in all of my life practices. Like most, I want to experience a certain reciprocity in the exchange of currency between myself and the practices, however they might be designed. Examinations and questions grappled with in my work are unique to subjects who navigate post-modern spaces within global societies not wholly convinced of their worth. I believe in the contemplative life. Most of this planet lives in a state of perpetual disruption. How are you grounded? Where’s your tree? As an interdisciplinary artist, I am interested in generating a vital energy when applied to the out bursting and positioning of body, image, space/form, ethics, meditation and most importantly—in the naming of self.
Educational Background: MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College;
MA in Individualized Studies with concentrations in Performance
Studies/Theory & Dramatic Writing, New York University; BA in English, Marymount College.
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Pamela S. Booker, MFA, MA