Assignment
Each student will be asked to contribute to a blog with an artistic outcome or documentation of it happening, speculating about how would the absence of human presence or of professional performers affect his/ her individual artistic practice, in light of one’s own experience during the module and, preferably, engaging with a text/ work indicated in the handbook or in class.
The outcome published in the blog should take the form of either:
- a score of instructions to be enacted by a spectator or non-actor;
- or a set of images (videos/photos/drawings) which may be set to perform autonomously (provide indications);
- or documentation of an artistic gesture/ act/ installation performed earlier without professionally trained actors or human presence.
General Guidelines on Outcome
The outcome should articulate:
- a speculation on how would the absence of human presence or of professional performers could affect the artistic practice of the student;
– engagement with a text referenced in the module’s handbook or in class, positioning oneself critically regarding viewpoints, case studies, concepts, quotes;
– reflection of what was gathered from one’s own experience during the module, as attendant of the lectures, as collaborator in the development of the group’s project, and as a peer debating with colleagues.
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