Performances in Public Spaces

Timetable

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Module aim (aims)

 to present issues concerning art in public spaces

developement of students ability to describe and analyse performances in public places
learnig of ability to critically analyse performances in public places as normative or subversive acts.
learning how to led disscussions on performances in public spaces.
to let the students get acquainted with contemporary performances in public spaces in world context
presentation of performances in public apaces as the phenomenas that overcome the artistic and
aestetics categories

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Will to learn

Syllabus

https://sylabus.amu.edu.pl/pl/document/27d71ce0-589a-4839-8e80-0209dadbbd49.pdf

Reading list

Obligatory
… Hannah Arendt, Human Condition (fragments)1.
Radical Street Performance (ed. Jan Cohen-Cruz). New York - London 1998, pp.1-13, 74-86, 119-125, 150-160,2.
179-185, 196-208, 271-289.
Chantal Mouffe, The Return of the Political. London, New York 2005, 1-8.3.
Art in the Urban Space: Contemporary Creation as a Tool. Paris 2009, 4-8, 15-24.4.
Andy Hewitt, Privatizing the Public: Three retorics of art's public good in 'Third Way' Cultural Policy. "Art &the Public5.
Sphere', vol. 1, 2011.
Janelle Reinelt, Rethinking the Public Sphere for a Global Age. "Performance Research", vol. 16, 2011.6.
Optional
Richard Schechner, Public Domain. New York 1969, pp. 157-180, 201-228.1.
David Wiles, A Short History of Western Performance Space. Cambridge 2003, 92-131.2.