| Introduction to Performance |
1101 (001) |
Erica R. Mott |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course introduces the student to basic elements of performance art; body and objects, form and content, space and time, and enactment and documentation. The exploration will be encouraged by visiting artists' workshops or field trips to performance events throughout the course. Students develop individual and collaborative projects infusing their own narratives and making real human connections. Primarily a beginner's course but open to all levels of students.
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Class Number
1689
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Area of Study
Gender and Sexuality
Location
MacLean 2M
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| Writing for Performance |
3017 (001) |
Sara Jane Bailes |
Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course examines a variety of conceptual approaches to the notion of the 'script' as a performative tool. Students study and interpret many forms and strategies that write performance, including plays, monologues, text more broadly, poetic form, choreography (as a practice that defines and articulates space), found narratives, instruction-based events, scores, diagrams and public actions. Working with audio, video artists' books/writings, sited work and live writing, the class engages with an expanded understanding of 'scripted text' not only as a medium for inspiration and future transmission but also as documentation. Emphasis is on developing a writing practice through research, ongoing exercises to develop your writing, and live presentation. You¿ll produce original writing for performance both collaboratively and individually.
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Class Number
2157
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
280 Building Rm 012
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| Fantasy, Romance, Transcendence |
3019 (001) |
Ginger Krebs |
Wed
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course will examine the miraculous and menacing faces of fantasy: from proms, propaganda, internet romance scams, science fiction and Caffeine Free Diet Coke, to transformative and even healing collective rituals. The body¿s vulnerability to awkwardness and fatigue often seem to contrast air brushed visions of the spectacular and miraculous. Art works that use live presence to address the imaginary can therefore encourage critical reflection about the nature of longing, even as they sweep us away. How does fantasy function for human beings? Discussions about belief, desire, nostalgia, fetishism and the sacred will be guided by readings from Slavoj Zizek, Byung-Chul Han and Hito Steyerl, and artwork by Frances Stark, Miranda July, Ligia Lewis and Jacolby Satterwhite. In this class a broad range of methods for performance practice will be considered, including those that incorporate media to access the fantastic, and those that re-invent the long history of art-as- ritual. Vocal and movement improvisation games, creative writing exercises, creative responses and small-scale assignments will support students to generate three, more substantial, projects that further their individual interests and goals.
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Class Number
2286
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
280 Building Rm 012
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| Performance and the materiality of time: waiting, duration, migration |
3038 (001) |
Sara Jane Bailes |
Thurs
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This studio course examines concepts of time, duration and endurance in
performative acts and time-based art. It explores the materiality of time and its
surprising and sometimes unruly creativity in performance, in everyday life activities
and in mass geopolitical events. How does slowness, super-speed or arrested
movement alter perception? Is there a politics of resistance in durational persistence
and endurance? How does memory, history and the flooded simultaneity of the
present haunt our experience of time?
You¿ll consider the effects of different events where time unravels or remains
fundamental to the structure and potentiality of the event - from pilgrimage and
procession to enforced acts of migration and translocation, from 35 second to 24
hour and year-long performances. Choosing performance as our lens and object
of study we¿ll consider the way time alters our perception of experience and the
memory of events.
Students investigate propositions and ideas in a workshop situation. Course work
includes the creation of 3-5 individual works, weekly reading/viewing and writing
responses, as well as creative response to the work of others.
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Class Number
2187
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Area of Study
Collaboration
Location
280 Building Rm 012
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| PS:Extreme Bodies in Performance |
4005 (001) |
Joseph Ravens/Rabensdorf |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
From Ron Athey and Kira O¿Riley, to Gwendoline Robin and Stelarc, this class explores tactics and politics for using the `extreme body¿ in contemporary performance. Pop-culture, media, and contemporary politics are examined through the lens of performance, as well as contemporary performance practice. Performance experiments, group discussions, on-going critiques, and written work are engaged as a strategy to merge art practice and theory. This is a practice-based course with material driven by the subject matter and the students¿ own work. Artists and themes explored may include: The Technological Body, The Sexual, Erotic, Pornographic Body, The Altered/ Prosthetic body, The Religious/Ecstatic body, Deprivation/Endurance/Duration, among others. In this class you will: Connect with the artist¿s body (yours) as the raw material for performance. Explore various strategies for individual and collaborative performance. Learn to operate in `Performance mode¿ with exercises to heighten your awareness of present time paired with a sense of total body performativity, and consciousness of the viewer¿s presence. Develop a collective performance vocabulary.
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Class Number
1688
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
280 Building Rm 012
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| Graduate Performance Seminar |
5016 (001) |
Vanessa Damilola Macaulay |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
A laboratory for experiment in terms of thought and action, this interdisciplinary critique seminar explores a series of key contemporary themes and issues in the area of live art. The course aims to be both topical and provocative, and as participants, you are invited to take a position (or play devil¿s advocate) in relation to a series of burgeoning topics and issues that are currently forming contemporary discourses concerning art and performance. In particular, this class will have a specific emphasis on interrogating presentational modes and discursive techniques. Through readings, discussion, and presentations, students will have an active stake in the form and nature of these discussions. The course is structured in two parts. In the first part, classes will focus on the activation and physicalization of what we have read. We will undertake practical workshops, embodied theory, provocations, and performance actions as a means of enacting the discourses we have explored. Students will examine their multidisciplinary work through the lens of performance. In the second part of the course, each student will present their current practice in the form of a performance, studio visit or other mode best suited for their work. Various guest artists, scholars and curators will be invited to participate in these final studio critiques.
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Class Number
2069
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
MacLean 2M
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| Grad Projects:Performance |
6009 (001) |
Sara Jane Bailes |
TBD - TBD
In Person
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Description
Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.
Prerequisites
Open to MFA, MFAW and MAVCS students only
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Class Number
1088
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
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| Grad Projects:Performance |
6009 (002) |
Mark Jeffery |
TBD - TBD
In Person
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Description
Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.
Prerequisites
Open to MFA, MFAW and MAVCS students only
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Class Number
1087
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
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