Seeing Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present
THEA 237
Spring 2011 not offered
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This is a hands-on class where students will explore performance art history, aesthetics, and its collision with theater from a project-based studio course. Students will conduct performance assignments and conceptual research between art forms in a guided studio setting. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Designing, Creating, and Realizing
Students will create and realize their own performances based on assignments. Students will learn to interpret with their bodies, text and concepts.
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA THEA |
| Course Format: Studio | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (DANC-MN)(THEA) |
Major Readings:
Required text book: RoseLee Goldberg "Performance art: from Futurism to the present"
Class Reader to be purchased at Minute Man (main street)
Recommended:
Michael Huxley and Noel Witts, "The twentieth-Century Performance Reader" Second Edition.
Anthony Howell, "The Analysis of Performance Art".
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Examinations and Assignments:
Each class will consist of a hands-on class and/or guided discussion of art theory, art/theater history and art criticism.
In this course, you will be asked to complete class assignments and written responses from the Class Reader articles. There will be a midterm assignment and a Final performance.
Class assignments, discussions, peer critiques 30%
Written responses (class reader) 20%
Mid term Performance 20%
Final Performance 30%
Materials for the project will be provided by the students, therefore, think wisely and be creative with your resources. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Demonstrated capability of a finished creative work (installation, collage, poem, music, painting, etc.)
Our main objectives in this course are:
-To obtain practical experience in conveying your ideas through performance.
-To learn the history of performance art and its crossover with theater.
-To understand the aesthetical development of performance.
-To articulate your personal aesthetics, tastes, and passions.
-To obtain basic skills on peer criticism and aesthetics. |
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