Project 3: Performance (due 12.06.12)

Einhorn (Unicorn), Rebecca Horn, 1970

For your final project, create a five-minute (or less) piece that explores performance. We are defining performance as "the execution of an action" so your project has a wide range of options and influences: Rebecca Horn (prosthetics), Marina Abramović (direct use of the body), Adrian Piper (confrontation/politics), Robert Whitman (interaction with projections/media), John Cage (sound), etc. This can be a recorded performance or a live performance.

The key to many successful time-based artworks is documentation. Think about how you are going to stage it, and what exactly you want the audience to see for your final critique: Is it a live performance? Are you showing only evidence from a past performance? Are we watching a video of the performance? Is there an installation component?

The project is due on 12.06.12 and you have a maximum of five minutes to perform/present your piece. You have a choice of two rooms:
55 W. 13th St. room 404
2 W. 13th St. room 811
*any other room/space must be ok'd by Norene & Isaac, due to time limitations

Please plan in advance. Check out the available rooms, and consider how, when, where and what equipment (camera, TV, DVD player, LCD projector) you will need. Your performance must be thoughtfully documented. Arrange for one of your classmates to video/photo it, including reserving the video camera and tripod. The documentation will then be edited and burned to a DVD due 12.18.12.

Isaac will be organizing the crit schedule and equipment, so you need to let him know ASAP what your room and equipment needs are.

CLASS SCHEDULE

11.15.12
Critique of finished stop motion projects
Introduction: Performance History (50’s-70’s)
HW: Develop ideas for performance project (drawings & notes in sketchbook). Go see one of these performances: http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/11/performance-do-over.html

11.22.12
Thanksgiving NO CLASS

11.29.12
Introduction: Performance Now (80’s-Present)
Movement exercises
Review preliminary sketches/concepts
Work time
HW: Finish performance project. Bring any necessary props. Sign out equipment and plan for documentation.

11.30-12.05.12
Norene & Isaac available by appointment for extra feedback

12.06.12
Critique of final performance projects
HW: After reviews, edit performance documentation and burn to DVD.

12.13.12
Fine Arts Department Final Reviews

12.18.12
Deliver a DVD with your project to Norene's locker in Fine Arts (instructions for accessing locker will be emailed to you)