Spring 2017 - FPA 412W D100

Advanced Seminar in Art and Culture Studies (4)

Class Number: 8207

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 4 – Apr 7, 2017: Wed, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
    GOLDCORP

  • Instructor:

    Peter Dickinson
    peter_dickinson@sfu.ca
    Office: GCA 2380
    Office Hours: Mondays, 1:30-3:30 pm, or by appointment:
  • Prerequisites:

    Eight upper division units and FPA 210.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Provides an in-depth investigation of a selected theoretical, historical or thematic topic in art and culture studies. This course requires independent research leading to a substantial paper, as well as directed reading preparation for seminars. Topics will vary from term to term. The course may be repeated when different topics are offered. May be of particular interest to students in other departments. Writing.

COURSE DETAILS:

Performance, as an object of study and a method of critical research and analysis, has increasingly become a way to bridge (inter)disciplinary inquiry across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In this course we will survey recent trends in Performance Studies as they intersect with five topical sites of cognate scholarly investigation: performance and new materialisms; performance and practice-as-research; performance and precarity; performance and re-enactment; and performance and sensory ethnography. Additionally, we will apply our discussions to a range of performance texts (from works of theatre, dance, film, and visual art to everyday enactments and political interventions) that interrogate the borders between theory and practice, research and creation, fact and fiction, mind and body, art and activism. Students will also be given the opportunity to develop a final project (either independently or collaboratively) that may address the concerns of the course through a range of knowledge paradigms, including writing, performance, visual documentation, installation, etc.

Grading

  • Attendance and active participation 15%
  • Ethnographic reading diary 15%
  • Seminar reading summary and discussion facilitation 15%
  • Project proposal 15%
  • Final project and paper 40%

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

None

REQUIRED READING:

Sarah Pink, Doing Sensory Ethnography, 2nd edition (Sage, 2015)

Ben Spatz, What a Body Can Do: Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research    
(Routledge, 2015)

A range of pdf articles that will be posted to Canvas.

Registrar Notes:

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