Lecturer: Effendy Ibrahim
Class hours: Wednesday, 3pm-6pm
Location: B309
Synopsis:
This module will introduce students to performance art practice and examine how this art form remains one of the most contentious, problematic, potent, and controversial in the art world, resisting efforts by state machinery, art academics and audiences, and even artists themselves, to categorize and contain it. Students will work in a workshop class setting and explore different sets of performance art sensibilities and discourse theoretically and practically. Students are expected to share ideas, engage in open critiques, and collaborate on performance strategies and tools throughout this module towards designing performance works that are evocative, intelligent, and that communicates.
Class hours: Wednesday, 3pm-6pm
Location: B309
Synopsis:
This module will introduce students to performance art practice and examine how this art form remains one of the most contentious, problematic, potent, and controversial in the art world, resisting efforts by state machinery, art academics and audiences, and even artists themselves, to categorize and contain it. Students will work in a workshop class setting and explore different sets of performance art sensibilities and discourse theoretically and practically. Students are expected to share ideas, engage in open critiques, and collaborate on performance strategies and tools throughout this module towards designing performance works that are evocative, intelligent, and that communicates.