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FaVU-1UdUPAcad. year: 2023/2024
The course is an introduction to performance art. Basic examples of artistic practice are presented against the backdrop of the foundational texts on performance art: Performance Art & Live Art by RoseLee Goldberg, Anti Art by Mc Evilley, Kaprow's set of texts Blurring of Art and Life, and Hannah Higgins' study of the Fluxus Experience.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Interest in performance art. Sufficient language skills to study texts in English.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
A condition for credit is meeting the attendance requirement (at least 50 %), presenting a paper (approx. 30 min.) with the use of visual accompaniment and submitting a research paper on the assigned topic of approx. 5 standard pages.
A minimum of 50 % attendance is required. Any justified lower attendance is compensated in the appropriate proportion by the preparation of additional seminar work submitted during the examination period.
Aims
The aim of the course, organized as an overviewof the basic phenomena of performance art in the structure of the given thematic areas, is to introduce students to the issues of performance art so that they can orient themselves in its basic developmental forms and sub-paradigms.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- identify and place and time major works of performance art;
- describe the basic developmental paradigms in performance art;
- apply the basic terminology of the discipline to specific works of art;
- describe the means used to realize a specific performance artwork.
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Basic literature
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
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Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Total Art (Henri)
2. Anti art (McEvilley)
3. The Art of Happening (Kaprow)
4. Actionism / Situationism (Nitsch / Debord)
5. Body Art (Jones)
6. Action Art / Performance Art (Morgan / Goldberg)
7. Activism & Social Art (Beuys – FIU)
8. Events, Activities & Intermedia Art (Fluxus – Higgins)
9. Conceptual Art / Conceptual Art (Flynt / Kosuth)
10. Process Art / Multimedia Art (Jappe / Berghaus)
11. Psychomagic / Shock Art (Jodorowski / Wei Wei)
12. Live Art / Art of Life (Heathfield / Johnson)
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