Course detail
Performance Art 1
FaVU-1PeUm1Acad. year: 2023/2024
The course is conceived as an exploration of means and approaches to performance art, structured around themes.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Interest in performance issues, language ability to work with sources in English.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The condition for graduation is a presented paper (15-20 min) with visual documentation (projection) on the chosen date, for credit submission of a seminar paper in digital form.
Overall, a minimum of 50% attendance (or attendance by means of distance learning) is expected; any justified lower attendance may be compensated in the appropriate proportion by the preparation of additional seminar work submitted during the credit period.
Aims
The main aim of the course is to introduce students to key artists and their significant works in the field of performance art.
- to identify and summarize important features of individual works and collective performance art movements;
- identify and describe contemporary domestic and international artistic trends in performance art;
- compile a text file in accordance with citation standards and present visual material on a selected topic;
- compare and highlight differences in the approaches of individual artists;
- apply the basic terminology of the discipline to specific works of art;
- characterize current trends in performance art;
- describe the means used to realize a specific performance artwork
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance: live art since 1960. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1998. ISBN 9780810943605.
JAPPE, Elisabeth. Performance, Ritual, Prozess: Handbuch der Aktionskunst in Eruopa. München: Prestel, 1993. ISBN 3791313002. HENRI, Adrian. Total art: environments, happenings, and performance. New York, N.Y. [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr, 1974. ISBN 0195199340.
MARTEL, Richard. Art action, 1958-1998: Happening, fluxus, intermédia, zaj, art corporel/body art, poésie action/action poetry, actionnisme viennois, viennese actionism, performance, art acciʹon, sztuka performance, performans, akciʹo mʺuvészet. Québec: Éditions Intervention, c2001. ISBN 2-920500-19-8.
WANDS, Bruce. Art of the digital age. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. ISBN 0500286299.
PIJNAPPEL, Johan. Fluxus: today and yesterday. London: Academy Editions, c1993. ISBN 9781854901941.
Recommended reading
+ monografie jednotlivých umělců
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme VUM_B Bachelor's, 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
, 3. year of study, winter semester, elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
block: the backstage (object) - OBSERVATION
John CAGE - Silence
Allan KAPROW - Happening / Art - Life
Yves KLEIN - Leap into the Void
James TURREL - darkness / light
Ana MENDIETA - Senses and Elements
Pierro MANZONI - objects, Klaus RINKE - time, Hanne DARBOVEN - recording / archiving
Block: PORTRAIT (subject) - EXPRESSION (image)
GILBERT & GEORGE, Jeff WALL - live images
Robert MAPPLETHORPE, Andres SERRANO - publication
Yasumasa MORIMURA, Mariko MORI - testimony
Huan ZHANG, Tracey EMIN - artist and model
Luigi ONTANI, Jurgen KLAUKE - identity, mask and disguise
Cindy SHERMAN, Pipilotti RIST - authenticity and image
Bas Jan ADER, Charles RAY, Skip ARNOLD, Erwin WURM - personality, mood and gesture
COLETTE, Yayoi KUSAMA, Vanessa BEECROFT, Spencer TUNICK - fashion, style and styling
Block: SPACE (external environment - architecture / mental - conceptual dimensions)
Land Art / US - interventions by Robert SMITHSON, Walter DE MARIA, Michael HEIZER, Charles ROSS, Dennis OPPENHEIM, Richard SERRA
Land Art / EU - participation: Richard LONG, Hamish FULTON, Andy GOLDSWORTHY
Performing Space and Architecture: Gordon MATTA CLARK, Dan GRAHAM, CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE
Conceptual Art: Joseph KOSUTH, On KAWARA, William ANASTASI, Bernar VENET, Susan HILLER, Linda Mary MONTANO
Spiritual Dimensions: James Lee BYARS, Marina ABRAMOVIC / ULAY, Maya DEREN - mythization, Nikolaus LANG - ritual, Wolfgang LAIB - meditation
Block: FIGURE / BODY (inner space / privacy and intimacy / emotional dimension)
Male body-art: Chris BURDEN, Vito ACCONCI
Cyber/trans body: STELARC, ORLAN
Female body-art: Valie EXPORT, Carolee SCHNEEMAN, Hannah WILKE
Women FLUXU: Yoko ONO, Charlotte MOORMAN, Shigeko KUBOTA
BDSM: Gina PANE, Bob FLANAGAN, FRANCO B, Ron ATHEY,
Transgender: Genesis P. ORRIDGE, surgery-art: HAN Xiao
Porn & prostitute-art: Cosey Fanni TUTTI, GWENDOLYN, Annie SPRINKLE
Erotic-art: Lynda BENGLIS, Veronica VERA, Elke KYSTUFEK