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Associate Professor
B.A., Psychology, Antioch University
M.A.L.S., Literature and movement, Wesleyan University
M.F.A., Dance, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Ph.D., Performance Studies, New York University
Office: UW2 - 330
Phone: 425.352.3491
Email: kkochhar@uwb.edu
Mailing: 358511, 11136 NE 180th Street, Bothell, WA 98011-1713
Teaching
In the classroom I see learning as a dynamic process that can emerge through attention to group process, the kinesthetic dimension, the development of critical and creative thinking, and the critique of culture. The classroom often acts as an artistic space that generates new social forms and ideas.
Recent Courses
BLS 318 Performance, Community, Identity and Everyday Life ...
BLS 322 Topics in Performance Studies: Garbage as Art
BIS 450 Performance and Healing
BIS 465 Performance, History and Memory
BISIA 374 Arts Workshop: Global Dance
Research/Scholarship
My critical work spans a range of topics, including art as a site of research, transnational performance forms, disability issues, the environment, and ways to increase access to theater. As Director of the UWB student group, the Empty Suitcase Theater Company, I am working on the 100 Hands Project and a series of community based performance projects on health and diversity. My own performance and digital arts work Includes “Wind Nomads,” “Still Points,” "Soundscaping the Land," and a collaborative project, “Water: TransPacific Flows.” In summary, my work revolves around developing new spaces of artistic, pedagogical, and scholarly collaboration. I am particularly committed to performance as a set of translational practices that engage us across the senses, media, and diverse communities both locally and globally.
Selected Publications
Books
Designing the Global University, with Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, (in progress).
New Formations of Cultural Studies: Collaboration, Practice, Research. (Editor, with Bruce Burgett and Miriam Bartha) A collection of writings by and conversations with Cultural Studies Praxis Collective invited speakers Pam Korza, Randy Martin, Ien Ang, E. Patrick Johnson, and Sonja Kuftinec (in progress).
Disability Studies Pedagogy, Editor. Lead book for University of Washington Scholars on Teaching, Seattle: University of Washington Press (in progress).
The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game. Lead editor (with Davis Schneiderman and Tom Denliger), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, December 2009.
Hearing Difference: The Third Ear in Experimental, Deaf and Multicultural Theater. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2006.
Articles
“Uneasy Alliances: Art as Observation, Site, and Social Innovation” Working Papers in Art and Design. University of Hertfordshire (July 2009).
“Scratching from the Other Side: The Garbage-Event,” (with Gray Kochhar- Lindgren), Event Structures, Ed. Ken Friedman and Owen Smith (forthcoming).
“Howling: The Exquisite Corpse, Butoh, and the Disarticulation of Trauma” in The
Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game, Eds. Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, Tom Denlinger. Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2009.
“Traces and Mappings: Revising Identity through Performance,” Postcolonialism and
Education: Ed Derek Mulenga. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. (January 2009).
“Performing Blackness: Transversal Diasporas Crisscrossing the Atlantic,” Performance Research International, December 2007: 126-136.
"Disability," American Studies Keywords, Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007: 85-88.
“Hearing Difference across Theaters,” Theater Journal. October 2006: 417-436.
“At the Edge of Hearing: The Third Ear and the Performance of Difference,” Aural
Cultures, Ed. Jim Drobnik, Toronto: XYZ Books.
Selected Talks
“Theatre, Transnationalism, and Cultural Diplomacy,” Plenary on Culture, Bandung 55 at 55, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Oct 26.
“Dancing the Sense Body,” “In Spirit: A Full Body Journey,” SNDO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 31, 2009.
“Art as Research: Observation, Site, and Social Innovation,” R2P (Research to Practice), Royal Society of the Arts, London England, October 31, 2008.
“The Eco-Arts in the Sustainability Conversation,” Creating Values for Sustainable Development, International Sustainability Conference, Basel, Switzerland, 21-22 August 2008.
Other Selected Accomplishments
“Techniques for the Possible: Still Points in E-14,” Turin, Italy, Artist Residency and Performance, Sept 2010.
Project Director: “Hong Kong Waterworks: Memory, Water, Architecture,” Hong Kong BYOB Biennale, West Kowloon
Cultural Center (University/Community art, research, and performance project), 12/09-2/10.
US State Department Cultural Envoy to Karachi, Pakistan; Collaboration with Faisal
Malik of Thespianz Theatre, Theater Production on Water, outreach sessions to area schools, talks and meetings with various NGOs, government officials, and media on the arts, cultural diplomacy and diversity: 9/26/09-10/8/09.
Teaching and Scholarship Exploration Project Award, “Towards Transdisciplinary Arts Practices,” UWB, 2009-2010, ($5000).