Course Language:
İngilizce
Course Objectives:
The aim of the course is to investigate the growing field of Performance Art as both a scholarly discourse and practice. Deriving analytical tools from theatrical concepts and combining them with other methodological approaches to understanding (such as anthropology, ethnography, sociology) the class pursues the production of cultural meanings, values and identities from an embodied perspective.
Course Content:
Developments in Performance Art in the twentieth and twenty-first century will be evaluated in the light of discussions of Performance Studies discipline. Performances will be watched. Theater and performance venues will be visited and interviews will be held about their management.
Course Methodology:
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion
Course Evaluation Methods:
A: Testing, B: Assignment C: Performance
Vertical Tabs
Course Learning Outcomes
| Learning Outcomes | Program Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| 1) Students will develop skills in classroom discussion, performance analysis, oral and written response, and several other modes of scholarly way of thinking. | , , , | 1, 2, 3, 4 | A, B, C, , |
| 2) will read the history and current theory of the field. | , , , | , , , | , , |
| 3) will discuss the ontology, meaning and value of performance. | |||
| 4) will find out the crossroads with different disciplines such as anthropology, ethnography and sociology. | , , , | , , , | , , |
Course Flow
| Week | Topics | Preliminary Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction and presentation of syllabus | |
| 2 | Performance and the functions of performance | |
| 3 | Rituals as liminal performances | |
| 4 | Using rituals in theatre, dance and, music | |
| 5 | What is play? What is playing? | |
| 6 | Play as performance and types of play | |
| 7 | Construction of identities (gender, race etc.) and performativity | |
| 8 | MIDTERM EXAM | |
| 9 | Types of performing | |
| 10 | Performing Processes | |
| 11 | Global and Intercultural Performance | |
| 12 | Performance and Postmodernism | |
| 13 | Performance presentations | |
| 14 | Performance presentations. Evaluation of the class. |
Recommended Sources
|
|
|
1. Theatricality From the Performative Perspective”, Virginie Magnat, Substance, 98/99. Vol. 31. Nos 2&3, 2002. Pp. 147-166
2. In Resistance to Theatricality”, Marvin Carlson, Substance 98/99. . Vol. 31. Nos 2&3, 2002. Pp. 238-250 3. Drama and Dramatic Theory: Peter Szondi and the Modern Theater”, Micheal Hayes. In Boundary 2. A Journal of Postmodern Literature Birghamton, N. Y. 1983, vol. 11, no3, pp. 69-81 4. Drama, Performativity and Performance, W.B. Worthen. PMLA, Vol. 113, NO: 5. 1998. |
Material Sharing
| MATERIAL SHARING | |
| Documents | |
| Assignments | Presentations will be evaluate as final examination |
| Exams | Mid-term, Final Examination |
Assessment
| ASSESSMENT | ||
| IN-TERM STUDIES | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE |
| Mid-terms | 1 | 30 |
| Assignment | 2 | 20 |
| Final | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE | 50 | |
| CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE | 50 | |
| Total | 100 | |
Course’s Contribution to Program
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | To have interdisciplinary viewpoint in fields of Art management and art, have knowledge of concept and terms. | x | |||||
| 2 | Movement, artists, their style, used materials; have knowledge about the subject and technical characteristics. | x | |||||
| 3 | Have knowledge about players of culture sector. | x | |||||
| 4 | Defines and executes the relation between art, work of art, artist, audience, critic and collector. | x | |||||
| 5 | Have basic knowledge of business administration and relate with art management. | x | |||||
| 6 | Is aware of team work and play an active role in Art Institutions regarding art management, curator/curatorship, and other organizational topics. | x | |||||
| 7 | Have knowledge about the employee in art institutions (the ones who are employed in gallery, museum, art institutions and festival organizations) regarding their tasks and problems and issues they may face. As a manager have a key role about relations between them. | x | |||||
| 8 | Follows up work of arts produced and displayed in local and international platforms. Is open to new ideas and may apply these to its own field and projects. | x | |||||
| 9 | Recognizes basic issues regarding his/her field and have knowledge about current solutions required in order to solve them. | x | |||||
| 10 | Has the nature of generating new projects within the context of time and place. Receives tangible outcomes by performing collective planning and application. | x | |||||
| 11 | Evaluates new evolutions and formations directed towards art producing and configures them in cultural and economic sense. | x | |||||
| 12 | Has basic knowledge of presentation and public relations and uses this information. | x | |||||
| 13 | Have knowledge about methodology, documentation and archiving. | x | |||||
| 14 | Have knowledge about the shape, content and legal sanctions of written contract and agreements in the field of cultural industry. | x | |||||
| 15 | Have knowledge about authors royalties, sales incomes, calculation methods of the budget and budget deficit. | x | |||||
ECTS
| ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION | |||
| Activities | Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Mid-terms | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Homework | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Final examination | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Total Work Load | 128 | ||
| Total Work Load / 25 (h) | 5,12 | ||
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 5 | ||
2