This studio course will examine the role of “persona” in performance art practices. In an interdisciplinary framework, we will discuss readings, artists, lived experiences, and practices that address how a character comes into being in the world.  Coursework includes technical, creative, and critical exercises that provide students the opportunity to develop performance personas in a range of approaches, which may include sound, text, voice, movement, film/video, photography, animation, AI, social media etc.