Week 12 Assignment Post

For class on Monday, you will need to have submitted your proposal for your final project; be ready to present your Simultaneous Group Action project; added four links to your del.icio.us site; and read The Institutionalization of an American Avant-Garde: Performance Art as Democratic Culture, 1970-2000 by Britta Wheeler (follow the link to JSTOR) and [...]

Week 10 Assignment Post Part B: 1440

Please post two thoughtful comments regarding Friday’s exhibition, 1440. One of your comments should address the installation at UCCS and one should address the installation at Colorado College. The shuttle could fall into either category. Here are some considerations:

How successful were the artists in engaging the concept of “social spaces?”
What ideas for concurrent performances in [...]

Week 10 Assignment Post

Here is what you need to have done by class on Monday:
Write your proposal for the Performing the Process project and email it to me; add 4 links to your del.icio.us site; read section 5 in the Readings Binder on reserve in the library, In Defense of Performance by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and make two thoughtful [...]

Assignment Post Week 9 (Part 2)

Please also post at least 2 thoughtful comments about the Marshall McLuhan article we began in class, The Relation of Environment to Anti-Environment (originally published as an independent article in the Windsor University Review in 1966). FYI, some of his other influential writings include the books War and Peace in the Global Village and The [...]

Assignment Post Week 9 (Part 1)

Here is what you need to have done by class on Monday:
Read pages 266-286 in the Fusco book; read section 8 in the library reserve binder (the Schechner article from last week); add four links to your del.icio.us site; post at least two thoughtful comments on the readings for this week to this post and [...]

Week 8 Assignment Post

Here is what you need to have done by class on March 31:
Email me your proposal for the Being Audience project; read pages 97-113, 177-194, and 203-224 in the Fusco book and section 8 in the library reserve binder: Actuals: A Look into Performance Theory by Richard Schechner; add four links to your del.icio.us site; [...]

Week 7 Assignment Post

Here is what you need to do by class on Monday:
Read pages 59-96 in the Fusco book; read the Nick Zangwill article, Art and Audience (follow the link to JSTOR); post four links on your del.icio.us page; REMEMBER THAT CLASS MEETS IN THE DANCE STUDIO ON MONDAY; post at least two thoughtful comments on the [...]

Week 6 Assignment Post

Here is what you need to do before class on Monday:
Read pages 133-173 in the Fusco book, have your Social Intervention projects ready to perform/present, add four links to your del.icio.us site, and make at least two considered comments on the reading. Here are some considerations:

Respond to and critique one specific work by Mendieta, [...]

Week 5 Assignment Post

Here is what you need to do before class on Monday:
Read pages 225-265 in the Fusco book; read these selections from the Interventionists book (follow this link (3.8 MB)) and inSite 05 (links below); listen to the Bad at Sports interview with the Center for Tactical Magic; make at least two thoughtful comments here regarding [...]

Week 4 Assignment Post

Please post at least two thoughtful comments on the readings for this week: pages 152-226 in the Goldberg book; Performance Art: (Some) Theory and (Selected) Practice at the End of This Century by Martha Wilson (JSTOR); and section one in the library reserve binder, chapter 5 in Performance: A Critical Introduction by Marvin Carlson.
Here are [...]