Site-Specific Performance

Catalog description

Site-Specific Performance examines the relationship between performance and physical sites, focusing especially on the aesthetics, social critique and/or protest, and critical history of selected sites. The course will be framed as a series of performance experiments that produce public knowledge about contested sites in the New Orleans area. In the process, students will examine the interdisciplinary tradition of site-specific performance from the perspectives of performance studies and visual art. The course re-imagines learning as an embodied, situated experience that explores how social justice work might happen through publicly shared critical analysis and performance.