Roles and Rituals: Performativity in Contemporary Arts and Society

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• ١نقاشIntro to Performativityالأسبوع ١مادتان

  Definitions, names, and general ideas Performativity as a theory Performance as Visual Arts practice Theatre, Intervention, Video Performance, Lecture Performance, Conversation about the curriculum Going over what to expect Intorucing the learning experiments at the end of the course

  • Richard Schechner's performance theoryRichard Schechner
  • Video Samples of Contemporary Performance ArtBas Jan Ader, Marina Abramovic, Coco Fusco Zhang Huan, Francis Alys, Li Ming, Sophie Calle, Adel Abdelssamad, Rabih Mroue

  في الجلسة

  • نقاشConversation about the curriculum
• ٢Agency and Roles / Gender and Sexualityالأسبوع ٢٦ مواد

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: The theory of the “homosocial”

  • Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist TheoryJudith Butler
  • Performativity, Precarity, and Sexual PoliticsJudith Butler
  • Drag Performance ArtistsContemporary Arts
  • Valet ExportContemporary Arts
  • Becoming an ImageHeather Cassils
  • Temporary HusbandCatherine Chun Dong
• ٣Labour and Consumption / Public Interventionالأسبوع ٣٨ مواد

  Labour Consumption: Performativity of supply/demans Public Intervention as Art Performance

  • Labour and PerformanceGabriele Klein and Bojana Kunst
  • Punching the Time Clock for One YearTheching Hsieh
  • Work, Work, Work: A Reader on Art and LabourSternberg Press
  • Century of the SelfAdam Curtis
  • BBC Report and WTO ResignationYes Men
  • Silence of the SheepAmal Kenawy
  • Safely Manouvring Across Lin He RoadLin Yilin
  • Rebecca BelmoreContemporary Arts
• ٤Temporality of the Event: From Conference to Olympicsالأسبوع ٤٣ مواد

  Claire Doherty: Advertising/Preparing for a Future performative Moment Artists: Lee Walton, Situationist Happenings

  • The Ontology of Performance, Representation without ReproductionPeggy Phalen
  • Presence in Absentia: Experiencing Performance as DocumentationAmelia Jones
  • Society of the SpectacleGuy Dubord
• ٥عرضنقاشزيارة ميدانيةArchetypes and Ritualsالأسبوع ٥٣ مواد

  Archetypes of Performativity Carl Jung psychology of Archetypes Typecasts, Tropes, and Sterotypes When Site Lost the Plot (Possible Studio Visit to Talk to Mohamed Abdelkarim, a local lecture-performance artist.

  • Covenant Transport: Move or DieAmanda Beech
  • Under Black CarpetsIlona Gaynor
  • The InterviewHarun Farocki

  في الجلسة

  • عرضWatch and Analyze Video
  • نقاشGroup Discussion
  • زيارة ميدانية(Possible Studio Visit to Talk to Mohamed Abdelkarim, a local lecture-performance artist.
• ٦Speech Acts and Spoken Wordالأسبوع ٦مادة واحدة

  Speech Acts. those verbal assurances and promises which seem not only to refer to a speaking relationship, but to constitute a moral bond between speakers,

  Performative Utterance Sentences which are not only describing a given reality, but also changing the social reality they are describing.

  Illocutionary Acts and Gestures illocution is what was meant, and perlocution is what happened as a result.

  JL Austin

  • Obama and Roberts Try the Presidential Oath of Office Again.Zeleny, Jeff. Case study.
• ٧نقاشPerforming Bureaucracy, and Surveillanceالأسبوع ٧٨ مواد

  Legal Performance: Declaration of Oath; Witness, Testimony, Evidence and Judgement

  Rana Hamadeh What if justice is the degree to which one can access theatre? What constitutes a public audience in age of surveillance?

  Performance Artworks Using Surveillance Technologies

  • DocumentalityMaurizio Ferraris
  • Performing Archives / Archives of PerformanceRune Gade
  • Soverignty as Performenace and Video ArtCorina Lacatus
  • Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa: Legally changing name as art performance
  • Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa, Janez Jansavideo
  • 3rdiWafaa Bilal 2010-11
  • Hito Steyerl
  • Trevor Paglan

  في الجلسة

  • نقاشGroup Discussion
• ٨نقاشتمرينRole-Play, Gaming, and Algorithmsالأسبوع ٨٧ مواد

  Study of Live-Action-Role-Plays The Performance of Algorithms Game Theory Methods of Learning: Role-Play, Games, Social Experiments, Project-based learning, Performative Reading Preparation for Role Play

  • Power Games: Rules and Roles in Second LifeMaria Backe
  • Code as Performative Speech ActInke Arms
  • Depressed ManDavid Worovics
  • The Trial of SuberDebtThunderbotHelen Knowles
  • The TrapAdam Curtis
  • Serious GamesHarun Farocki
  • LectureHito Steyerl

  في الجلسة

  • نقاشReading and Discussing Examples
  • تمرينPreparation for Role Play
• ٩تمرينالأسبوع ٩

  Interactive Role Play A type of role playing game in which each participant assumes a particular character and acts out various scenarios at events which last for a predetermined time

  في الجلسة

  • تمرينUsing what we have learned throughout the course, we will create a role play scenario in which each student in the course will be designated a role, and using certain rules, we will act them out in a collaborative experiment.
• ١٠نقاشالأسبوع ١٠

  Discussion on Yesterday’s Role Play Power dynamics, strictness of the rules, how can we analyze what happened, how much was planned, was it a success or failure. What reflections do we have on this experiment keeping in mind the things that we learned through the 5 weeks

  Recap on the course Reflections, critiques, etc.

  في الجلسة

  • نقاشGroup Discussion