Topic: Media, Performance, and Embodiment
Class Information
Instructor: Bloom, Gina
CRN: 52741
Time: W 12:10-3:00
Location: 308 Voorhies
Description
Course title: Media, Performance, and Embodiment
In this course, we?ll read foundational theory at the intersection of performance studies and media studies to explore the relationship between human bodies and performance technologies, including but not exclusively digital technologies. Students will select a performance object of their choice as their focus for the course: this can be anything from a particular production (including a production of the student?s own making), an object that does performative work on the theater stage (e.g. costume, props), a digital object (e.g. videogame, database), a practice (e.g. Meyerhold biomechanics, yoga), or a genre of performance (e.g. circus, poetry slam, puppetry). Students are also welcome theorize their own performance work as their performance object.