In this practical course you will explore a range of performance traditions and strategies drawing from historical and contemporary art. You will examine key aspects of Performance Art including the body, gesture, process, collaboration, audience/spectatorship, liveness, time and spatial dynamics to develop and stage your own performance works.

The history of performance draws on the collaborative traditions of 20th Century avant-garde movements such as Dada, Futurism and Conceptualism. It incorporates and combines strategies of improvisation, intervention, visual art, dramaturgy, choreography, voice, and events in the public realm. Performance can be understood as a way of engaging directly with the social world, the audience, the specifics of a space, the artistic process and the politics of identity.