Description
[Social Practice minor; Sound minor] In this seminar-style elective, students will delve into the conceptual, historical and technical underpinnings of performance art. We will consider creative methods to produce artworks that engage embodied experience, impermanence and physical movements for students to explore their personal engagement with these processes. The class will focus around three topical areas: performance as a live event and/or action for the camera, participatory performance and performance as intervention with an existing cultural or social sphere. This coursework will be structured through lectures, student research presentations, class discussions, work in progress and critiques. Drawing from the three areas, students will produce three studio projects over the course of the semester. Any media or cross disciplinary practice is welcome and encouraged to be employed through this experimental engagement with performance methodologies.