This studio is intended to draw new and unexpected meaning from existing student work by applying a series of distinct, prescribed actions to a single, specific work. The class is modeled after the 2003 Danish documentary film, “The Five Obstructions,” by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth. The film documents Leth’s responses to five “obstructions” placed by von Trier against Leth’s experimental film, “The Perfect Human.”Students begin the process by choosing a well-developed, recent project from their own portfolios to which they will navigate “obstructions” that drop regularly over the semester. The projects are chosen through both personal preference and class discussion. Students will face requirements to “cut-up” the project, subvert, subjugate, and transfigure it, and ultimately relinquish authorship of the piece to another student while appropriating the work of another.