English

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The home faculty only

None.

Credit is awarded on the basis of attendance, reading a selected text and presentation of its synopsis in one of the seminars. Written papers (synopsis of a selected chapter from the study literature – approximately 3000 words) are submitted in the digital form at the end of the semester.
Compulsory attendance of at least 70%. Lower attendance, when explained reasonably, can be replaced with an additional seminar paper upon the agreement with the lecturer.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to performance and performativity theory through the group reading and discussing selected chapters of crucial texts. It should provide necessary analytical tools (concepts and theories) for critical thinking about performance and performativity both in contemporary art and in culture in general.
Upon completion of the course student will be able to:
- identify and summarize the important features of performance theory within performative practices (both within and outside of the field of contemporary art);
- to identify and analyze current performative art practices;
- to apply the key terminology of performance theory in writing about their own creative practice.

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CARLSON, Marvin. Performance: a critical introduction. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 978-0415299275. (EN)
FISCHER-LICHTE, Erika. The transformative power of performance: a new aesthetics. New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN 978-0415458566. (EN)
HOWELL, Anthony. The analysis of performance art: a guide to its theory and practice. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. Contemporary theatre studies. ISBN 9057550865. (EN)
WOLF, Laurie, COUNSELL, Colin. Performance Analysis: An Introductory Coursebook. Routledge; 1st edition, 2005. ISBN 978-0415224079 (EN)

GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance art: from futurism to the present. 3rd ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011. World of art. ISBN 978-0500204047. (EN)
GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance: live art since 1960. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1998. ISBN 9780810943605. (EN)
HENRI, Adrian. Total art: environments, happenings, and performance. New York: Praeger, 1974. ISBN 978-0275435400. (EN)
MCEVILLEY, Thomas. The triumph of anti-art: conceptual and performance art in the formation of post-modernism. Kingston, N.Y: McPherson & Co, 2012. ISBN 0929701925. (EN)