In this course, you will explore a range of performance traditions and strategies drawing from fine art and music. You will examine key concepts in performance including the body, gesture, collaboration, audience and spectatorship, temporality and spatial dynamics.

You will also explore artists’ ideas, movements, philosophies, styles, periods, technologies and methods in relation to performance, which will help to form your own artistic practice.

The history of performance draws on the collaborative traditions of live music, improvisation, visual art, theatre, dance and events in the public realm. In the late 20th century, concepts of performance were deconstructed and expanded into new hybrid forms such as live art, performance art, intermedia, and site-specific interventions.