FA-686P Performing the Body
3 Credits
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FA-686P-01
Thursday
2:00 pm â 4:50 pm
Dock 72 Brooklyn Navy Yard, 3 -137
Performance art is a time-based art form that can include acting, poetry, music, dance, and painting. In this course, the body will be considered as both subject and material, central to the making and reception of performance. We will examine the practical and aesthetic concerns in the evolution of performance art against the backdrop of critical and historical perspectives. Students will explore a wide range of performance possibilities, alone and collaboratively, to develop the critical skills that will inform both their performance practice and their view of contemporary art. Seminars will provide an overview of contemporary performance art strategies while foregrounding the body as a site of meaning, resistance, and transformation.