PERF07040 2019 Live Art and Performance
Full Title
Live Art and Performance
Transcript Title
Live Art and Performance
Code
PERF07040
Attendance
N/A %
Subject Area
PERF - Performing Arts
Department
YADA - Yeats Academy Art Dsgn & Arch
Level
07 - NFQ Level 7
Credit
05 - 05 Credits
Duration
Semester
Fee
€
Start Term
2019 - Full Academic Year 2019-20
End Term
9999 - The End of Time
Author(s)
Rhona Trench, Una Mannion
Programme Membership
SG_APERF_H08 201900 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Performing Arts
SG_APERA_B07 201900 Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts (Acting)
SG_APERT_B07 201900 Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts (Theatre Design)
Description
In this module learners investigate "Live Art" practices and create original works/happenings that integrate performance, installation, music, media arts and socially engaged practices. Performance history approached from non theatrical methods such as Surrealist, Dadist, Futurist, Fluxus, Situationist and resistant performance movements including Punk and postmodern performance. Module explores history and theory of the avant garde in visual and performance art and explores how performance and installation provoke and implicate the viewer, address the location specifically and perform a cultural/political intervention. Use of the photo/digital image from 1980s into the 21st century studied in reference to identity and cultural politics. Artists explored might include, Laurie Anderson, Pina Bausch, Joseph Beuys, Christo, Gilbert & George, Piero Manzoni, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Robert Wilson
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module the learner will/should be able to;
1.
identify, delineate and operate in a contested space
2.
record and document live art project
3.
contextualise live art work in the historical, cultural and theoretical movements of the 20th and 21st centuries
4.
create a work/performance that engages/implicates an audience
5.
project manage event or "happening"
6.
stage manage and organise supportive technology for a live art event
7.
analyse and critique live art work
Module Assessment Strategies
Assessments designed to give students opportunity to stage a live art happening, performing or creating in a non-theatrical space. Project event, rationale and analysis and ability to document the process are the key strategies for realising learning outcomes
Indicative Syllabus
Performance Art: History and Aesthetic Movements
- surrealism, dada, futurism, fluxus, situationists, punk and postmdoernism
Performance & Contemporary theory
- performance and the postmodern, performance and feminism, performance and identity, ecology and politics
Performance and disruptive interventions
Installation Art
Intersection of performance and technology
The Space
The Body
Popular Culture
Coursework & Assessment Breakdown
End of Semester / Year Formal Exam
100 %
Coursework Assessment
| Title | Type | Form | Percent | Week | Learning Outcomes Assessed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Project Live Art Project | Coursework Assessment | UNKNOWN | 50 % | OnGoing | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
| 2 | Essay documented essay on live art work | Coursework Assessment | UNKNOWN | 25 % | End of Term | 3,7 |
| 3 | Individual Project Document/record performance work | Coursework Assessment | UNKNOWN | 25 % | OnGoing | 2,4,5,6 |
Full Time Mode Workload
| Type | Location | Description | Hours | Frequency | Avg Workload |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop / Seminar | Flat Classroom | interactive session | 2 | Weekly | 2.00 |
| Lecture | Flat Classroom | Lecture led learning | 2 | Weekly | 2.00 |
Total Full Time Average Weekly Learner Contact Time 4.00 Hours
Module Resources
Non ISBN Literary Resources
Kwon, Miwon, One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity (MIT Press, 2004)
Heathfield, Adrian, Live: Art and Performance (Routledge 2006)
Schechner, Richard, Performance Studies: An Introduction (Routledge 2006)
Savage, Jon, England's Dreaming (Faber & Faber 2005)
Reynolds, Simon, Rip it Up and Start Again (Penguin, 2006)
Bial, Henry, The Performance Studies Reader (Routledge 2007)
Warr, Tracey, Body:Themes and Movements (Phaidon, 2006)
Shusterman, Richard, Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art (Cornell UP, 2000)
Jones, Amelia, Body Art: Performing the Subject (U Minnesota Press, 1998)
Carlson, Marvin, Performance: A Critical Intorduction (2004)
Goldberg, Rosalee, Performance Art: from Futurism to the Present (Thames & Hudson 2001)
Goldberg Rosalee and Laurie Anderson, Performance: Live Art Since the '60s (Thames & Hudson 2004)
Other Resources
None
Additional Information
None