DRAM7304 Live Arts and Performance

2019

4.5

1 x 1-hour lecture weekly
1 x 1-hour seminar weekly
1 x 2-hour film screening weekly

1 Admission into HBA-Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
1a Admission into HBCACW-Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) (Creative Writing)
1b Admission into HBCADR-Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) (Drama)
1c Admission into HBCASM-Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) (Screen and Media)
1d Admission into GDPCACW-Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts (Creative Writing)
1e Admission into GDPCADR-Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts (Drama)
1f Admission into GDPCASP-Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts (Screen Production)
1g Admission into MCACW-Master of Creative Arts (Creative Writing)
1h Admission into MCADR-Master of Creative Arts (Drama)
1i Admission into MCASP-Master of Creative Arts (Screen Production)
Must Satisfy: ((1 or 1a or 1b or 1c or 1d or 1e or 1f or 1g or 1h or 1i))

1 of DRAM3102, DRAM3508 has been successfully completed

What are live arts? How do they differ from other art forms? Where is there innovation in performance today? And why has liveness become so significant? This topic considers the recent evolution of innovative performance and live arts. It explores the work of selected artists and companies in an international field, and traces connections with live arts in Australia. Students will consider the liveness of performance in relation to sense and aesthetics, ethics and embodiment, science and nature, the media, cyberspace, games and machines.

This topic aims to:

• increase students' knowledge and appreciation of the recent evolution of innovative live arts and performance

• enable students to explore selected performance works drawn from an international field and to discover connections with recent developments and current practice in Australia

• provide opportunities for students to recognise, articulate and evaluate the live aesthetics and embodied ethics of contemporary performance

• develop students' ability to think, speak and write about performance in a critically-engaged, aesthetically-informed and ethically responsive manner

On completion of this topic students will be able to:

• describe the significance of selected performance works and their contribution to the evolution of innovative live arts

• apply appropriate aesthetic criteria in analysing a relevant performance work and evaluating its intervention within a cultural context

• participate constructively and reflexively in discussion of the embodied ethics of performance

• identify opportunities for engaging aesthetic criteria and ethical considerations in students' own practice as artists and critics