Course Description
Explores performance art’s utilization of the body as a site for
meaning and tool for expression. In addition to traditional
performances, students will have the opportunity to design and
implement interventions, collaborations, and participatory works.
Athena Title
Performance Art
Prerequisite
Any 2000-level course
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will develop an understanding of using the body as a tool to generate meaning.
- Through four performative assignments and directed discussion, students will adapt their studio vocabulary to the surfaces of the body and bodily action.
- Students will learn historical precedents and contemporary examples of performance and various art practices utilizing the body.
Topical Outline
- Readings on performative, interventionist, participatory, and collaborative art practices
- Intensive group discussion on performance art in history and contemporary practice
- Creative investigations into performance, intervention, participation, and collaboration
- In-class performance exercises
- 4 assigned projects
- 15-minute presentation on performance artist
