Performance Art

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012725
Subject Area
Performative Arts
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodology is fundamentally theoretical and practical in nature, involving reading and critical commentary of texts, as well as analysis of performative creations, using a wide variety of media and document files, with special attention to the photographic archives and files available through well known platforms. Students will take an in-class written exam. Class work class includes an in-class presentation of a historical performance and justification for their choice, as well as the conception and presentation of a performance project. 

Learning Outcomes

- Understand the process of the emergence of  Performance Art in the context of the historical avant-garde;

- Know and describe the major movements, trends and designers who are part of this art form;

- Differentiate the language and procedures of the Art of Performance;

- Identify the performative tradition in the Portuguese context;

- Be able to analyze and criticize a performance;

- Developing autonomous research capabilities in archival performance records;  

- Understand the relationship between performance and documentation;

- Try the performative creation through the design of a performance project.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The course is presented as a monographic study on the Art of Performance.  The class begins with a brief history of this new art form, from its emergence in the context of modernism and the avant-garde, until its consolidation and diversification of the 60s to the present.  Along this route, including the international and national, will categorize the main trends and movements, with emphasis on the training of languages and performative traditions, such as sound poetry, the poetic manifesto, the happening, body art, installation performative, the multimedia performance, photo-performance, among others.  Secondly we will analyze some of the major consequences of the Art of Performance under the production of meaning, especially for the reconfiguration process of creation and reception of a live event, reflecting on the concepts of presence, aliveness, embodiement, trial, concurrency and betweenness.

Head Lecturer(s)

Fernando Matos de Oliveira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 20.0%
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Project: 20.0%
Frequency: 40.0%

Bibliography

COHEN, Renato (1980) Performance como Linguagem. São Paulo: Col. Debates, Perspectiva.

FERRANDO, Bartolomé (2013) Arte y cotidianeidad. Hacia la transformación de la vida en arte, Madrid, Árdora Ediciones.

GOLDBERG, RoseLee (2004) Performance: Live Art Since the '60s, London, Thames & Hudson.

GOLDBERG, RoseLee (2012) A Arte da Performance, 2ª edição, Lisboa, Orfeu Negro [1979].

GLUSBERG, Jorge (2005) A Arte da Performance, S. Paulo. Ed. Perspectiva.

HOWELL, Anthony (1999) The Analysis of Performance Art, London, Routledge.