This is an inter-disciplinary video production workshop that explores visual strategies to produce and re-produce performance practices. These performance practices include performance art, ritual, dance, music, the spoken word, and media spectacles. At the theoretical level, we will study performance as a practical, aesthetic and theoretical terrain, and as a historical site that produces knowledge in its relationship to the politics and power of representation, culture and memory. We will engage with various practices of documenting performance such as visual anthropology, docu-drama, ethnographic surrealism, dance for the camera, and other experimental approaches. Requirements: production of at least 3 short videos, discussion of assigned readings, weekly video/film screenings, and critiques of students ongoing video projects. Prerequisites: ArtS 100, Theatre 101, or permission of instructor. Enrollment limit: 12 (expected: 12).

Hour: JOTTAR