Robert Quillen Camp
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“As slippery as it is engaging, How to Learn is by turns a jeremiad, a self-justification, an explication, an evasion…In one section, the lecturer questions the institution’s ideals and methods, in the next he regales us with tales of his own misadventures as a student, and soon these streams begin to merge in surprising ways. The talk is sprinkled with off-hand references to Dewey and Foucault and the like, but the overall effect keeps drifting from the intellectual and toward the comic and phantasmagoric.”
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How to Learn
PETE, 2018
WRITER / DIRECTOR
HOW TO LEARN examines the relationship between education, privilege, and knowledge in a provocative performance piece inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s lectures on education. A richly detailed immersive sound environment subverts the traditional lecture form and provides the backdrop to a narrative that juxtaposes the banalities of contemporary academic life with a surreal and affecting exploration of its secret counterpart in the imagination.![]()
Written and directed by Robert Quillen Camp
Performed by Jacob Coleman
Designed by Miranda k Hardy & Jenny Ampersand
performed at PETE in Portland, OR and at JACK, NYC, 2018
PETE, 2018
WRITER / DIRECTOR
HOW TO LEARN examines the relationship between education, privilege, and knowledge in a provocative performance piece inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s lectures on education. A richly detailed immersive sound environment subverts the traditional lecture form and provides the backdrop to a narrative that juxtaposes the banalities of contemporary academic life with a surreal and affecting exploration of its secret counterpart in the imagination.
Written and directed by Robert Quillen Camp
Performed by Jacob Coleman
Designed by Miranda k Hardy & Jenny Ampersand
performed at PETE in Portland, OR and at JACK, NYC, 2018