| Introduction to Performance |
1101 (001) |
Sara Jane Bailes |
Wed
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
1507
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Area of Study
Gender and Sexuality
Location
280 Building Rm 012
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| The Inadequate Body |
2004 (001) |
Sungjae Lee |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course interrogates the theory and practice of body based performance by exploring innovative ways of creating with, and thinking about the untrained body. The ethos of the course is to encourage students to question the function and boundaries of the body in performance and everyday life. What happens when the body can't go on, but must go on? Through a series of intensive workshops and discussions, students will interrogate and redefine notions such as control, virtuosity, discipline, stamina and skill to establish the parameters of what a body is unable physically to do or signify, and how may this failure be used for other ends.
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Class Number
2373
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
280 Building Rm 012
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| BODY POSITIVE |
2900 (051) |
Erica R. Mott |
Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
What does one¿s emergent creative practice have to do with one¿s body in the world? How do we maintain the resilience and vulnerability required of artists and art students when we already feel so vulnerable in our everyday lives? How, as audiences and community members, do we share and receive feedback generously while still honoring our own lived experiences?
This course offers strategies for students to explore, reflect upon, and connect common themes and interests in the development of an emerging creative practice that will serve as the basis of their ongoing studies at SAIC and beyond. While the focus of this course will be on both embodied practices and the politics of having a body, it is open to all disciplines and areas of study. Through studio assignments, readings, viewings, and writing projects, students will generate a clearer understanding about how and why they make art, and how to continue making their work authentically.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be a sophomore to enroll.
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Class Number
2025
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
280 Building Rm 012
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| Reality TV |
3031 (001) |
Maire Witt O'Neill |
Fri
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course will explore the cultural significance, repercussions and influence that Reality TV has had on society, art and entertainment. Through theoretical, analytical and experimental approaches we will investigate Reality TV¿s as both inspiration and opposition. This course will focus on performance utilizing the trappings of Reality TV, performance for the camera, performance and cultural studies and citational video performance.
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Class Number
2266
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
280 Building Rm 012
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| Live Wire / Hot Mic: Music and Technology in Performance Art |
3047 (001) |
Corey Smith |
Wed
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course dives deep into the rich terrain where music, technology, and contemporary performance intersect. Through technical workshops, theoretical exploration, embodied practice, and hands-on experimentation, students will explore sound as a technically mediated live material: something made by bodies, carried through wires, and organized through performance. Beginning with technologies we already carry in the body ¿ language, voice, breath, and movement ¿ students will expand into the full expressive toolkit of multimedia performance, using microphones, speakers, digital audio tools, projection, lighting, and other electronic technologies to shape live performance work. No formal musical or technical training is required.
Artists and works include Pauline Oliveros, Meredith Monk, Pamela Z, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Alvin Lucier, George Lewis, Laurie Anderson, the Wooster Group, Holly Herndon, Basil Twist, and Manual Cinema. Readings include Christopher Small¿s Musicking, George Lewis on improvisation, Dick Higgins on intermedia, Philip Auslander on liveness, Legacy Russell on glitch, and texts addressing technology¿s role in shaping musical and performative practice.
Students create a voice/sound study and a technologically mediated live performance. Coursework culminates in a personalized, ambitious multimedia performance that moves freely between disciplines.
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Class Number
2384
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
MacLean 2M
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| PERF: Professional Performance Practice |
3921 (001) |
Joseph Ravens/Rabensdorf |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
How does a performance artist create a sustainable career and create a sustainable community in the world after college? This course will provide the nuts and bolts of how to build a career as a performance artist. We will delve into the politics of curating and representing diverse practices. Students will create their own public performance festivals in public or in site-specific spaces learning the mechanisms of getting funding and writing proposals.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Sophomore seminar course
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Class Number
1584
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
MacLean 2M
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| Graduate Performance Seminar |
5016 (001) |
Sara Jane Bailes |
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
1945
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
280 Building Rm 012
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| Grad Projects:Performance |
6009 (001) |
Vanessa Damilola Macaulay |
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
1946
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
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| Grad Projects:Performance |
6009 (002) |
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
1947
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
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