Course detail
Performance Art 3
FaVU-1PeUm3Acad. year: 2023/2024
The course is conceived as an exploration of means and approaches to performance art, structured around themes.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Interest in performance art, language ability to work with sources in English.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The condition for graduation is a presented paper (15-20 min) with visual documentation (projection) on the chosen date, for credit submission of a seminar paper in digital form.
Overall, a minimum of 50% attendance (or attendance by means of distance learning) is expected; any justified lower attendance may be compensated in the appropriate proportion by the preparation of additional seminar work submitted during the credit period.
Aims
The main aim of the course is to introduce students to key artists and their significant works in the field of performance art.
Students' abilities after completing the course:
- to identify and summarize important features of individual works and collective performance art movements;
- identify and describe contemporary domestic and international artistic trends in performance art;
- compile a text file in accordance with citation standards and present visual material on a selected topic;
- compare and highlight differences in the approaches of individual artists;
- apply the basic terminology of the discipline to specific works of art;
- characterize current trends in performance art;
- describe the means used to realize a specific performance artwork
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance: live art since 1960. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1998. ISBN 9780810943605.
JAPPE, Elisabeth. Performance, Ritual, Prozess: Handbuch der Aktionskunst in Eruopa. München: Prestel, 1993. ISBN 3791313002. HENRI, Adrian. Total art: environments, happenings, and performance. New York, N.Y. [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr, 1974. ISBN 0195199340.
MARTEL, Richard. Art action, 1958-1998: Happening, fluxus, intermédia, zaj, art corporel/body art, poésie action/action poetry, actionnisme viennois, viennese actionism, performance, art acciʹon, sztuka performance, performans, akciʹo mʺuvészet. Québec: Éditions Intervention, c2001. ISBN 2-920500-19-8.
PIJNAPPEL, Johan. Fluxus: today and yesterday. London: Academy Editions, c1993. ISBN 9781854901941.
WANDS, Bruce. Art of the digital age. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. ISBN 0500286299.
Recommended reading
BERGHUIS, Thomas J. Performance art in China. Hong Kong: Timezone 8, 2006. ISBN 9889926598.
BISHOP, Claire. Participation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. Documents of contemporary art series. ISBN 9780262524643.
MELZER, Annabelle. Dada and surrealist performance. Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. ISBN 0801848458.
OSKAR SCHLEMMER, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WALTER GROPIUS a TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR S. WENSINGER. The theater of the Bauhaus. Thur S. Wensinger. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. ISBN 0819560200.
RECKITT, Helena. a Peggy. PHELAN. Art and feminism. Abridged, revised, and updated. London: Phaidon, 2012. ISBN 9780714863917.
SONFIST, Alan. Art in the land: a critical anthology of environmental art. New York: Dutton, c1983. ISBN 0525477020.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme VUM_B Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme VUB Bachelor's
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
COMMUNICATION AND CONTEXT - art world / art world
Law & Censorship / Anti Art:
Genpei AKASEGAWA, HI-RED CENTER & NEO DADA, Ukio MISHIMA, Gustav METZGER - DESTRUCTION ART SYMPOSIUM (Mark BOYLE, John LATHAM), Ai WEI WEI, SUN Yuan, YANG Zichao, ZHU Yu
Feminism & Gender:
GUERILLA GIRLS, Rachel ROSENTHAL, Mary Beth EDELSON, Judy CHICAGO, Suzanne LACY, Ann MAGNUSSON, Karen FINLEY, Adrian PIPER, Janine ANTONI, Cheryl DONEGAN, Jana STERBAK, Katarzyna KOZYRA, Patty CHANG,
Policy & Social Interventions:
BLACK MASK, GUERILLA ART ACTION GROUP, ART WORKERS COALITION, J.J. LEBEL, Guy DEBORD, SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL, Hans HAACKE, Stuart BRISLEY, Krzystof WODICZKO,
Activism & Participation:
Lygia CLARK, Helio OTICICA, Franz ERHARD WALTHER, Lucy ORTA, Santiago SIERRA, ROSARIO GROUP, GROUP MATERIAL, Rirkrit TIRAVANJA, Francis ALYS, Jeremy DELLER, Thierry GEOFFROY-COLONEL
Hacking & Tactical Media:
ANT FARM, GENERAL IDEA, RTMARK, YES MEN, Brian SPRINGER, Geert LOVINK / ARTS CATALYST (Heath BUNTING, Rod DICKINSON, Alexandra MIR)
Eco & Bio Art:
GREEN PEACE / Alan SONFIST, Helen MAYER & Newton HARRISON / Peter FEND, Mel CHIN, CRITICAL ART ENSAMBLE & Eduardo KAC, Oron CATTS
COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS - philosophy, spirituality / lifestyle
1.
Futurism - Filippo Tommaso MARINETTI, Luigi RUSSOLO
Avant-garde - Kazimir MALEVICH, Vladimir TATLIN, Vladimir MAYAKOVSKY
Surrealism - Antonin ARTAUD, André BRETON, Salvador DALÍ
Bauhaus - Oskar SCHLEMMER
2.
Dada - Marcel DUCHAMP & Elsa von FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN / Anti Art - STURTEVANT
Anthroposophy - Rudolf STEINER / FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - Joseph BEUYS
3.
Tadeus KANTOR - The Informal, The Zero, The Impossible and the Theatre of Death
Jerzy GROTOWSKI - The Poor Theatre, The Laboratory, The Theatre of Participation and The Seed
Andrei TARKOVSKY - Stalker
Alejandro JODOROWSKI - Psychomagic / Panic Therapy
4.
George MACIUNAS & Dick HIGGINS & George BRECHT, Emmett WILLIAMS & Robert FILLIOU, & Ben VAUTIER, Jackson MAC LOW & Henry FLYNT & Al HANSEN, Ben PATTERSON & Geoffrey HENDRICX & Henning CHRISTIANSEN, Wolf VOSTELL & Dieter ROTH & Endre TÓT
5.
BLACK MARKET - MOVEMENT:
SCHOOL OF ATTENTION / GROUNDWORKS - Zygmunt PIOTROWSKI
OPEN SITUATIONS - Tomáš RULLER & Habíb KHERADYAR ZAMANI
ART SERVIS ASSOCIATION - Boris NIESLONY & Jürgen FRITZ
Zbygniew WARPECHOWSKI & Nigel ROLFE
6.
BLACK MARKET INTERNATIONAL - GROUP: Norbert KLASSEN & Jacques VAN POPPEL & Roi VAARA,
Alastair MAC LENNAN & Lee WEN & Jason LIM, Myriam LAPLANTE, Elvira SANTAMARIA TORRES, Julie ANDREE TREMBLAY