Course detail
Performance Art 2
FaVU-1PeUm2Acad. 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 art, 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.
Students' abilities after completing the course:
- 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, summer semester, elective
, 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
BLOCK: OBJECT IN MOTION (machine / robot) - MECHANICAL RYTHMUS (ART & TECHNOLOGY)
Nam June PAIK, VASULKA'S (Steina & Woody) - media & robotics
Bruce NAUMAN, Joan JONAS, DUMB TYPE - VIDEO / performance
Garry HILL, Bill VIOLA, Douglas GORDON, STUDIO AZZURRO - VIDEO / installation
Jeffrey SHAW, KNOWBOTIC Research, VAN GOGH TV - Hi-tech & VR
SURVIVAL Research, BOW GAMELAN, Roman SIGNER, Eric HOBIJN, FISCHLI & WEISS,
Cai Guo QIANG - Explosive Processes;
La Monte YOUNG, Alvin LUCIER, Pauline OLIVEROS, Terry FOX, Joe JONES, Paul PANHUYSEN - SOUND ART
BLOCK: FIGURE IN MOTION (gesture / dance / voice) - BIOLOGICAL RYTHMUS
Iuichi INOUE, Lucio FONTANA (ZERO), Georges MATTIEU, Jackson POLLOCK
ACTIONISM - NITSCH, SCHWARTZKOGLER, BRUS, MUHL
GUTAI - YOSHIHARA, SHIMAMOTO, SHIRAGA, MURAKAMI, TANAKA
BUTO - ONO, HIJIKATA, TANAKA, SANKAI YUKU, DAI RAKUDA KAN
Merce CUNNINGHAM, JUDSON DANCE (BROWN, PAXTON, REINER, HAY, CHILDS), Ann HALPRIN, Simone FORTI, William FORSYTHE, Pina BAUSCH - dance;
William S. BORROUGHS, Allen GINSBERG, Jack KEROUAC - reading and speech
Henri CHOPIN, Meredith MONK, Diamanda GALAS, Tom WAITS - voice and vocals
BLOCK: ACTION (in the environment) - CONSTRUCTION / DECONSTRUCTION
Niki de SAINT PHALLE & Jean TINGUELY, Daniel SPOERRI, ARMAN - Neo Realism
Robert RAUSCHENBERG, Edward KEINHOLZ, Robert MORRIS - Pop Art
Robert WHITMAN, Claes OLDENBURG, Jim DINE - Happenings
Andy WARHOL - FACTORY & VELVET UNDERGROUND - pop cult
LIVING THEATRE, PERFORMANCE GROUP, FORCED ENTERTAINMENT, Yannis KOUNELIS, SOCIETAS RAFFAELO SANZIO - alternative theatre
Rebecca HORN, Jenny HOLZER, Barbara KRUGER - message & medium
RESIDENTS, Monty CANTSIN, John BOCK - underground, neoism, anarchism
Paul McCARTHY, Mike KELLEY, John DUNCAN - perverse and punk
BLOCK: STORY (in community) - COMPOSITION / DECOMPOSITION
Jimmie DURHAM, James LUNA, Guillermo GÓMEZ-PEŃA, Coco FUSCO, Roberto SIFUENTES, Adam FORTUNATE EAGLE - Indian Movement
Tehching HSIEH, Zhang HUAN, He YUNCHANG, Mona HATOUM, Shirin NESHAT, Sigalit LANDAU, Tanja OSTOJIC, Tracey ROSE - identity presentation
Laurie ANDERSON, Matthew BARNEY - media show / style and mannerism
Jeff KOONS, Damien HIRST - market show / kitsch and exclusivity