Course detail

Performance Art 1

FaVU-1PeUm1Acad. year: 2024/2025

The course is conceived as an exploration of means and approaches to performance art, structured around themes.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Entry knowledge

Interest in performance issues, 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.

- 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

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance art: from futurism to the present. 3rd ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011. World of art. ISBN 978-0500204047.
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.

Type of course unit

Lecture

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller

Syllabus

block: the backstage (object) - OBSERVATION

John CAGE - Silence

Allan KAPROW - Happening / Art - Life

Yves KLEIN - Leap into the Void

James TURREL - darkness / light

Ana MENDIETA - Senses and Elements

Pierro MANZONI - objects, Klaus RINKE - time, Hanne DARBOVEN - recording / archiving

Block: PORTRAIT (subject) - EXPRESSION (image)

GILBERT & GEORGE, Jeff WALL - live images

Robert MAPPLETHORPE, Andres SERRANO - publication

Yasumasa MORIMURA, Mariko MORI - testimony

Huan ZHANG, Tracey EMIN - artist and model

Luigi ONTANI, Jurgen KLAUKE - identity, mask and disguise

Cindy SHERMAN, Pipilotti RIST - authenticity and image

Bas Jan ADER, Charles RAY, Skip ARNOLD, Erwin WURM - personality, mood and gesture

COLETTE, Yayoi KUSAMA, Vanessa BEECROFT, Spencer TUNICK - fashion, style and styling

Block: SPACE (external environment - architecture / mental - conceptual dimensions)

Land Art / US - interventions by Robert SMITHSON, Walter DE MARIA, Michael HEIZER, Charles ROSS, Dennis OPPENHEIM, Richard SERRA

Land Art / EU - participation: Richard LONG, Hamish FULTON, Andy GOLDSWORTHY

Performing Space and Architecture: Gordon MATTA CLARK, Dan GRAHAM, CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE

Conceptual Art: Joseph KOSUTH, On KAWARA, William ANASTASI, Bernar VENET, Susan HILLER, Linda Mary MONTANO

Spiritual Dimensions: James Lee BYARS, Marina ABRAMOVIC / ULAY, Maya DEREN - mythization, Nikolaus LANG - ritual, Wolfgang LAIB - meditation

Block: FIGURE / BODY (inner space / privacy and intimacy / emotional dimension)

Male body-art: Chris BURDEN, Vito ACCONCI

Cyber/trans body: STELARC, ORLAN

Female body-art: Valie EXPORT, Carolee SCHNEEMAN, Hannah WILKE

Women FLUXU: Yoko ONO, Charlotte MOORMAN, Shigeko KUBOTA

BDSM: Gina PANE, Bob FLANAGAN, FRANCO B, Ron ATHEY,

Transgender: Genesis P. ORRIDGE, surgery-art: HAN Xiao

Porn & prostitute-art: Cosey Fanni TUTTI, GWENDOLYN, Annie SPRINKLE

Erotic-art: Lynda BENGLIS, Veronica VERA, Elke KYSTUFEK

Seminar

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller