Performance Art
THEA 237
Spring 2014
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01
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This course can be understood as an ephemeral, time-based art, typically centered on an action or artistic gesture that has a beginning and an end, carried out or created by an artist. It also contains the elements of space, time, and body.
This hands-on course explores the history and aesthetics of performance art, and how it relates to the performing arts (dance and theater). In a project-based format, students conduct performance assignments and conceptual research within the gaps that exist between performative art forms. The course focuses on analyzing and studying artists that utilized the concepts of chance, failure, or appropriation in their work. |
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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) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Required text book:
RoseLee Goldberg, PERFORMANCE ART: FROM FUTURISM TO THE PRESENT
Recommended:
Michael Huxley and Noel Witts, THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PERFORMANCE READER, Second Edition
Anthony Howell, THE ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE ART
Allan Kaprow, ESSAYS ON THE BLURRING OF ART AND LIFE
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Examinations and Assignments:
D. ASSIGNMENTS:
In this course, you will be asked to complete class assignments and written responses from the Class Reader articles.
Class assignments:
Trajectory
Every-Day
Auditory
Tableau |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Demonstrated capability of a finished creative work (installation, collage, script, poem, music, painting, dance choreography, play etc.). |
| Instructor(s): Oteíza,Marcela Times: .....F. 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: TST114; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 2 | | |
| Seats Available: -2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 2 | FR: X |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 3 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 2 |
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