Course detail

Performance Art 2

FaVU-1PeUm2Acad. 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 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

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: OBJECT IN MOTION (machine / robot) - MECHANICAL RYTHMUS (ART & TECHNOLOGY)

Nam June PAIK, VASULKA'S (Steina & Woody) - media & robotics

Bruce NAUMAN, Joan JONAS, DUMB TYPE - VIDEO / performance

Garry HILL, Bill VIOLA, Douglas GORDON, STUDIO AZZURRO - VIDEO / installation

Jeffrey SHAW, KNOWBOTIC Research, VAN GOGH TV - Hi-tech & VR

SURVIVAL Research, BOW GAMELAN, Roman SIGNER, Eric HOBIJN, FISCHLI & WEISS,

Cai Guo QIANG - Explosive Processes;

La Monte YOUNG, Alvin LUCIER, Pauline OLIVEROS, Terry FOX, Joe JONES, Paul PANHUYSEN - SOUND ART

BLOCK: FIGURE IN MOTION (gesture / dance / voice) - BIOLOGICAL RYTHMUS

Iuichi INOUE, Lucio FONTANA (ZERO), Georges MATTIEU, Jackson POLLOCK

ACTIONISM - NITSCH, SCHWARTZKOGLER, BRUS, MUHL

GUTAI - YOSHIHARA, SHIMAMOTO, SHIRAGA, MURAKAMI, TANAKA

BUTO - ONO, HIJIKATA, TANAKA, SANKAI YUKU, DAI RAKUDA KAN

Merce CUNNINGHAM, JUDSON DANCE (BROWN, PAXTON, REINER, HAY, CHILDS), Ann HALPRIN, Simone FORTI, William FORSYTHE, Pina BAUSCH - dance;

William S. BORROUGHS, Allen GINSBERG, Jack KEROUAC - reading and speech

Henri CHOPIN, Meredith MONK, Diamanda GALAS, Tom WAITS - voice and vocals

BLOCK: ACTION (in the environment) - CONSTRUCTION / DECONSTRUCTION

Niki de SAINT PHALLE & Jean TINGUELY, Daniel SPOERRI, ARMAN - Neo Realism

Robert RAUSCHENBERG, Edward KEINHOLZ, Robert MORRIS - Pop Art

Robert WHITMAN, Claes OLDENBURG, Jim DINE - Happenings

Andy WARHOL - FACTORY & VELVET UNDERGROUND - pop cult

LIVING THEATRE, PERFORMANCE GROUP, FORCED ENTERTAINMENT, Yannis KOUNELIS, SOCIETAS RAFFAELO SANZIO - alternative theatre

Rebecca HORN, Jenny HOLZER, Barbara KRUGER - message & medium

RESIDENTS, Monty CANTSIN, John BOCK - underground, neoism, anarchism

Paul McCARTHY, Mike KELLEY, John DUNCAN - perverse and punk

BLOCK: STORY (in community) - COMPOSITION / DECOMPOSITION

Jimmie DURHAM, James LUNA, Guillermo GÓMEZ-PEŃA, Coco FUSCO, Roberto SIFUENTES, Adam FORTUNATE EAGLE - Indian Movement

Tehching HSIEH, Zhang HUAN, He YUNCHANG, Mona HATOUM, Shirin NESHAT, Sigalit LANDAU, Tanja OSTOJIC, Tracey ROSE - identity presentation

Laurie ANDERSON, Matthew BARNEY - media show / style and mannerism

Jeff KOONS, Damien HIRST - market show / kitsch and exclusivity

Seminar

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller