Performance Art

Catalog description

The development, production, and presentation of performance art works, and the study of performance art theory and history. ART 413 Performance Art (3)(BA) This course meets the Bachelor of Arts degree requirements. This course will consist of lectures, readings, demonstrations, critiques, and studio practices in performance art. The course will begin with introductory exercises aimed toward the use and understanding of objects, images, materials, and actions of the body as performance elements. Performance assignments will range from autobiographical works to those which will address political issues effecting art and the body today such as sexuality, ethnicity, health, ecology, the art market, government intervention, and others. Reading and discussion assignments will cover the theory and history of performance art in the twentieth-century.