Programme

The course aims to analize performance art, in the crucial season that unfolds from the late sixties to the seventies, up to the contemporary. The conductor is the behavioral and performative practice, public or private, which has as its theme the individual body of the artist or of other protagonists, with modalities of intervention related to self-representation and genre, to the existential and private dimension as political practice, to temporality as a questioning of the object condition of the work. The spaces of the performance will be analyzed, with the identification of interventions and practices that took place in the domestic and private dimension of the studio; in informal and alternative spaces; in the galleries; in the public space and in institutions and major exhibitions. Particular attention will be paid to the analysis of:
- critical definitions;
- questions related to the sources and the relationship between performative practice, photographic and video documentation;
- issues related to the conservation, musealisation and reenactment of the performative event.

Core Documentation

1) T. Macrì, Slittamenti della performance, vol. 1, anni 1960-2000, Postmediabooks, Milano 2020
2) C. Mu, P. Martore, Performance Art. Traiettorie ed esperienze internazionali, Castelvecchi, Roma 2018
3) Ulteriore bibliografia verrà segnalata dalla docente all’inizio del corso e resa disponibile sul moodle del corso.

Non attending will integrate with:

4) A text to be selected:
- I. Caleo, Performance, materia, affetti. Una cartografia femminista, Bulzoni Editori, Roma 2021
- C. M. Laudando, Reti performative. Letteratura, teatro, nuovi media, Tangram, Trento 2015
5) Monographic text on an artist analyzed and to to be agreed with the Professor.


Insights for attending and not attending:
H. Foster, R. Krauss, Y.A. Bois, B.H.D. Buchloh, Arte dal 1900. Modernismo, Antimodernismo, Postmodernismo, Zanichelli, Milano 2006

Type of delivery of the course

The course is organized in lectures conducted through screened presentations of works, documents and multimedia tools. Some topics are studied in depth through the reading and commentary of critical and programmatic texts. During the course, visits to exhibitions and museums and classroom meetings with professionals of the sector are organized.

Attendance

The frequency is strongly recommended.

Type of evaluation

The examination is a written assignment. The examination aims to verify the ability to present and analyze thmes analzied by the course and texts. Three Open questions will be proposed Attending students will also be involved in an intermediate test whose evaluation will be part of the final evaluation.