TIM_M_024 Theory of performativity

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. ak. soch. Tomáš Ruller (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. ak. soch. Tomáš Ruller
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:40 326, except Tue 16. 4.
Prerequisites
The ability to work with Internet and print resources in English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the Theory of Performance. It si organized as aresearch on action media in structure of given themes. The course of Performance Theory: Analysis of Performance Art is based on the book by Anthony Howell – Harwood Academy Publishers 1999 and book Performance / a critical introduction by Marvin Carlson - Routledge 2006.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- identify and summarize the important features of theories in action art;
- identify and describe current domestic and foreign aesthetic trends in the action art;
- create a text file in accordance with the citation standard and present a paper on a selected topic; - to compare and highlight the differences in the attitudes of contemporary art movements;
- to apply the basic terminology of the field in writing the diploma thesis;
- analyze current trends in the field of action art;
- describe the means used to implement a specific work of action art.
Syllabus
  • 1. What is Performance Studies ? What is Performance ?
  • 2. Ritual,
  • 3. Play,
  • 4. Performativity,
  • 5. Performing,
  • 6. Performance Processes,
  • 7. Poetics of Performance,
  • 8. Actuality and Score,
  • 9. Ritual and Transformance,
  • 10. Global and Intercultural,
  • 11. Selective Inattention and Energy,
  • 12. Approaches and Aesthetics.
Literature
    required literature
  • DAVIES, David. Art as performance. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004. ISBN 9781405116664.
  • SCHECHNER, Richard. Performance theory. Rev. and expanded ed. London: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0415314550.
  • SCHECHNER, Richard a Sara. BRADY. Performance studies: an introduction. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9780415502306.
    not specified
  • JAPPE, Elisabeth. Performance, Ritual, Prozess: Handbuch der Aktionskunst in Eruopa. München: Prestel, 1993. ISBN 3791313002.
  • GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance: live art since 1960. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1998. ISBN 9780810943605
  • GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance art: from futurism to the present. 3rd ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011. World of art. ISBN 978-0500204047.
  • HENRI, Adrian. Total art: environments, happenings, and performance. New York: Praeger, 1974. ISBN 978-0275435400.
Teaching methods
1/1 lecture and seminar - theoretical research corresponding with expected topic of master diploma work.
Assessment methods
The condition of completion is in chosen term a presentation of the paper (15-20 min.) including visual documentation - projection, credit comes after the submission of the seminar paper in digital form, total of at least 50% of the attendance is expected (possible reasoned lower attendance is replaced in the corresponding proportion by the elaboration of the additional seminar paper submitted in examination period).

The case of exam is oral on a randomly selected topic from all topics of the semester.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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