Intermediate Studio: Performance Art

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This intermediate studio course is designed to introduce students to performance art, including various related techniques, processes, forms, and artists. Performance projects will be created for live performance at the end of the term in collaboration with Pitt Studio Arts Sound and Media Design students. (Date and Location TBD) An introductory survey of various performance art practices, histories, and methods will be presented, resulting in a live staged group variety show. Throughout the semester student will research, explore, and present both short-form and durational solo and group performances that span poetic monologue, comedy, movement, sound, costuming and character creation, lip-synch, participatory, and performance for video projects. Themes may include: Camp, Lo-Fi Glamour, Post-Minimalism, Neo-Burlesque, Spectacles of Failure, Political Horror, Stand-Up Comedy and Tragedy, Exotic Masquerade, and Drag. Students will view and discuss examples from the birthplace of performance art through contemporary practices, including Futurist Productions, Cabaret, Dada Poetry, Gutai, Happenings, Land art, Action Painting, Video Performance, Fluxus Movement, Body Art, Endurance Art, Conceptual Art, the Avant-Garde and more.