ARTH 255 - Histories of Performance: From Live Art to New Media

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
Performance art, body art, and live art are terms used to describe visual artists that center embodiment and duration to their practices. Borrowing from other art forms such as ritual, music, theater, and dance, performance art troubles vision-oriented object-centered Art Histories. This course traces the ways artists from around the world have turned to performance to interrogate their own bodies, the sites where actions take place, audience relationships, identity formation, and everyday life. We will look at a range of issues and practices such as: performances through photography, film and video art, street actions, performance recreations, and performance documentation. Field trip(s) required. Recommended Preparation: one 100-level course in art history.