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The Thing Itself, Tallulah Woitach

Senior Projects Spring 2023

A book of poetry centered around the tarot. It will explore the vast meanings, interpretations, and angles of each card. It will be w meditation upon the quest of shedding self, and to what degree that is possible discursively, dialectically, and creatively. Is that even a goal we should be reaching towards? The form will be dictated by the cards, for example the magician which is card one will be composed of one line stanzas, and so on. It will also be informed by my own personal occult studies, as well as the correspondences and correlation between Tarot and cobbler …

Reading Sunstone, Wyatt Reu

Senior Projects Spring 2023

A reading of Octavio Paz's Sunstone.

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Poetics Of Finitude: Time And Death In The Poetry Of R.M. Rilke And T.S. Eliot, Isabel James Greene

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Junkyard, Jess M. Berkun

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Attempt At An Open Letter To The Bronx, Christopher Valdivia

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Open letter to and interrogation of the Bronx, in the form of autoethnographic writing.

¿Quién me encontrará a mí, en la noche, en el Bronx, a mis 22 años?

From Ictus To Raptus, Andrea Abel

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Multidisciplinary Studies of Bard College

FROM ICTUS TO RAPTUS

From Ictus to Raptus is a story about the emergence of sound. This performance is only a human attempt to capture the Event from which all existence emerges (Ictus), and an attempt to interpret and rejoice in the resulting complexity of the world, by tracing multiplicity back to singularity and reuniting it with its origin (Raptus).

Selfish, Jacopo Mavica

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Metamorph, Heather Woodworth Garufi

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Thresholds, Shannon Anne O'Neill

Senior Projects Fall 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Wind Still Blows, Sophie Ellen Kautenburger

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Artist's Diary, Anamae Gilroy

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

A Clear Place In The Sun, Sarina Donin Schwartz

Senior Projects Spring 2022

A Clear Place in the Sun is a poetry collection centered around growing up in Florida and all of the beauty and contradictions that that entails.

Decision, Atlas Hutchinson

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Made Entirely Of Vapor: A Poetic Unwriting, Sophia Luna Fangman

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

How Aesthetics Shape Our Ethics: Exploring Nazi Germany, The Soviet Union, And Digital World, Nika Kokhodze

Senior Projects Fall 2022

Every day, we encounter numerous amount of images, films, news and propaganda. The different forms and manifestations of aesthetics haunts our lives daily. What if I told you that Aesthetics has immense amount of power? This project aims specifically at that as it explores authoritarian states and the liberal democracies alike. How could the moral compass that we all cherish and hold dearly be predicated and shaped by something so remote as aesthetics? Exploring through examples from the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the digital world we all live in, one might find some answers and the right questions to …

Pomegranate Seeds, Grace Faye Kasemeier

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

As Many Names As Objects, Luke Herrigel

Senior Projects Spring 2021

“And we: spectators, always, everywhere,

turned toward the world of objects, never outward.

It fills us. We arrange it. It breaks down.

We rearrange it, then break down ourselves”

• Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

“Honesty is Unbelievable”

• A Bumper Sticker I Saw

For my senior show I used collected materials, found objects, personal ephemera (both genuine and fabricated), paintings and sculpture to make installations that I would change every night of the show’s duration. Each morning the installation would be photographed, left for only a few hours, and then would be uninstalled to make way for creating a new iteration. …

"Bothe The Heye And The Lowe": Role Reversal And Medieval Animal Allegory, Rose A. Rugendorf

Senior Projects Fall 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Before You Grow Fruit, Stella Rose Schneeberg

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

A Poet, A Teacher: Standing Still With Mary Oliver, Melissa Therese Benedek

Senior Projects Spring 2021

The poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019) once wrote, “Attention without feeling, I began to learn, is only a report.” How does Oliver teach the practice of paying attention to the natural world? This project explores observation as a form of attention in Oliver’s work and how it is implicit in her writing practice. The relationship between attention and feeling manifests in her poetry. Observations are both the foundation and definition of Oliver’s concrete images and incommunicable encounters with nonhumans in the natural world. For Oliver, the goal of attention is not to give a scientific account of details about specific animals …

Compendium, Sara E. Manlowe

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

A Small Bird Sings For Miles, Sophie M. Gregory

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Please Stand Back, Amelia Sage Van Donsel

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

On Eager Tenterhooks, A. Rose Levi

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Where We Cannot Remain Standing, Isabella Louise Argondizza

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Where We Cannot Remain Standing is the culmination of my contemplation and growth while being a performer and student during the COVID-19 pandemic. How does a singer connect to their fellow musicians and audiences when traditional methods are no longer safe? As Rainer Maria Rilke describes, the ongoing isolation is “the alien thing” (Letters, 40) that has entered all of us. This year has been intensely emotional and unpredictable, a state of constant transition. The solitude has given me space for reflection, and this project shows the inspirations behind my recital concept. It brings together every possible element of my …

Hut Annandale: Humblest Dwelling, Ruiqi Zhu

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Lots of us have a dream deep down in the heart: to get away from the congested cities and live in a hut in nature. French port Jean Wahl once wrote: The frothing of the hedges I keep deep inside me. In my project, he explored this dream and constructed a group of architectural structures by hand for those potential hermits. Studying at Bard College, I have found this region is a place with a great hermit culture. With the picturesque scene of nature and the location near the New York Metropolitan area, here the mid-Hudson Valley has attracted lots …

Heaven Is A Hot Tub, Charlotte Catherine Foreman

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A lot of people don’t know that most of what America considers “Florida”– the tri-county area of Miami-Dade, Broward, & Palm Beach – was underwater before it was developed. The unadulterated marshland of the Everglades flooded everything south of Orlando. On some days, so many wading birds crowded the air above that you couldn’t even see the sky. Fast forward about a century, & half of the marsh has been drained with the help of dredges, levees & canals. 90% of the wading birds are gone, but the snowbirds from the northeast, biding out retirement on the beach, have replaced …

Ariadne’S Transformation: Presenting Femininity From Roman Poetry To Modern Opera, Xinyi Wang

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Ariadne's story is dominated by her relationships with men: Minos, Theseus, and Bacchus. But who is she? Can her personality be examined independently from men? If yes, does she have her own voice in expressing herself? Do we hear her voice? If no, then, how does her personality help construct her story? My analysis will focus on how the Roman poets Catullus and Ovid, the Baroque composer Monteverdi, and the twentieth-century composer Strauss present Ariadne, and how their Ariadnes’ voices are heard. Perhaps she will always be eternal and undying as long as she remains a figure around which discussions …

Cicadas & Other Hauntings, Miriam J. Anastasi

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Letter Blocks, Lukas Graham Hemmer

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A collection of prose and poetry exploring language as a material object.