2017 - 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0811-4528-01 | Performance and Postmodernism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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What is performance? What is postmodernism? And how these concepts are related? The course focuses on three aspects of this relation: the growing of performance out of the disruption of modernist categories and conventions; performance as an expression of an epistemological crisis; and performance as an expression of the collapse of aesthetic and cultural hierarchies.