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| 0811-1344-01 | Performance art and Arabic Street theatre in Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
The topics of the seminar investigate groundbreaking works of Palestinian artists in Israel, and in the Arab world including female artists who used their art in different ways in order to create their art. It also seeks to show the special conflicting and fragmenting forces that mark the variety of fields including performance art, photography, video installations, painting, sculpture, and ceramics. We will tackles street theater as we explore the artistic personal experiences through representation of social, cultural, and political forces that define and limit their actions and possibilities; We shall see what institutions restrict their personal freedoms and their search for selfhood, and what does it mean when they can employ through their art to subvert traditional restrictions on Arabic people. Some of the artistic acts of self expression also wish to create what sites of memory. Street art theatre foreground their anger and rebellion. Thereby, calling attention to, and subverting, such entrenched ideas and practices. They also seek to dismantle those distortions of Arab culture that have been allowed to pass as fact in Israel and abroad. For these artists their personal lives are intimately intertwined with their political lives.
Through the representation of artistic and performance artists as like the Palestinian artist Raeda Saadeh, Anisa Ashker and others` works the students would be able to understand the artist’s struggles for self-determination as are inseparable from their struggle for Palestinian and Arab self-expression and freedom.
This seminar is an example of learning through art making , related to representing the unique features of multimedia performances interdisciplinary artist with a focus on performance art and street theatre, which enables students to better analyzes and articulate theoretical recent performance pieces responding to political issues tackling the long history and sad continuation performance artists are creating powerfully direct pieces that visualize and humanize sometimes faceless and forgotten issues.