Isabel Bowser

This semester I took a ceramics class with professor Steven Thurston. I concentrated in ceramic sculpture in undergrad and I was excited to reconnect with this way of making while at OSU. I ended up creating sculptural elements for a…

Fecund by Isa (ink on paper)

These are the five poems I wrote for my Imaginative Writing class this semester. Themes flicker and solidify and after these poetic explorations I am closer to discerning the This-ness of my creative process…

This class gave me a space to allow the messiness of my research process to unfold without judgement. My anxiety about the lack of clarity I had around what I was researching in my art practice and in my scholarship…

Abby Z's website

Performed at the Wexner Center for the Arts Nov 17-19, 2022. 

I couldn't stop moving in my seat the whole time. The movements are fast, complex, rhythmic, powerful, human. It feels like the dancers are training to…

Performance Excerpt

Excerpt of my new solo Predator and Prey Alike to be performed as part of our informal, first year MFA, end of semester showing. This will be an opportunity to receive feedback on the piece from professors and…

                                                                                               Beast Trio by Isa Bowser (Hard ground on steel plate)

Pounding and relentless percussive recorded music looping over and over. Maybe 8 dancers moving so slowly and with so much fluidity, never stopping, not speeding up. Their bodies forming tableau…

Ok, ok, I’ll admit it 

Everyone has an owl and everyone has a dog inside them 

is it true, is it true that you like pets more than wild animals, answer carefully 

would you, would you share your meal with…

An Intermedia collaboration between Alisha Jihn, Elizabeth Sugawara, John Cartwright, and Isa Bowser.

What Are You Looking Forward To? was created for our Intermedia class taught by Norah Zuniga-Shaw. In this piece, we explore the layers and overlapping nature of…

Would you, would you share your meal with predator and prey alike, answer carefully.

There are sites and spaces where the mundane, everyday world is suspended and a mythic, more-than-material world is evoked. Is it possible to use performance as a site of such trans-dimensional experiencing? What are the political and cultural implications of…