The French conceptual artist Sophie Calle, whose projects are often led by her ‘rules of the game’ (a set of predetermined instructions), suggests that abiding by rules is ‘restful [and] a way of not to have to think – just be trapped in a game and follow it.’ Rule structures, directives and instructions restrain the artist’s choice and potentially bring something unforeseen and unpredictable to the creative process. The focus of this online course is the critical and practical consideration of these creative constraints as we examine the practice of using task-led activities as a means to conceive and compose performance. Weekly discussions and practical experiments are informed by selected critical reading and examples of case study artists (e.g. Calle’s ‘Rules of the Game’, Cage’s ‘Chance procedures’ and Goat Island’s ‘Directives’). Each participant will be invited and guided to make weekly performance responses to the material in their own time, and these responses will be uploaded onto an online content store where they are accessible to the course participants and discussed in class. Participants will gain a critically and creatively informed understanding of the practical philosophies that underpin task-based performance art.
☆Donation:
Guide
Cutting the Puppeteer´s Strings
For Data You Are, And To Data You Shall Return / 为数据所生，亦归数据而去
Disinformation - “Antithesis”
the end of work + USELESS Micro Commissions
Flowers in the Fire
THE UNFATHOMABLE UNDERSTANDING: MOSHGAN REZANIA & ROBERTA JEAN SMITH
Alexandra Hopf, Being Renée Sintenis & The Women of My Life
exhausted and exuberant
Cost of Sojourn: Survival and actions revealed in unspecific sites
Paik’s Video Study - Nam June Paik Art Center
Chun Kwang Young: Times Reimagined
Brea Weinreb - Between Men
Paik’s Video Study
Poetry and Performance. The Eastern European Perspective
MMCA Symposium : WHAT DO MUSEUMS CONNECT? MUSEUMS IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD
Goyoson: not him, but them and Michel
Tilda Swinton Pays Tribute to the Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini
