Courses

Wedged between the rudiments of theater and the gestures of visual art, performance art came to prominence at the end of the twentieth century.  Our concentration in this course will be primarily on artists and practices in the twentieth century. Central to our investigations will be discussions surrounding performance as catalytic process, as temporal art, and issues of the body as form. Feminist performance art will be the focus for this semester: woman’s body as a space-claiming, mark-making, speculative, archival, writing body.  We will also take advantage of Performa21, The Ninth Biennial of New Visual Art Performance which takes place October 12-31 and will be held at various venues around the city.