Spring 2020 - CA 353 D100
BlackBox Performance (4)
Class Number: 8619
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2020: Mon, Wed, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
GOLDCORP
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Instructor:
Tara Harris
tgh1@sfu.ca
Office Hours: By appointment
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Prerequisites:
CA (or FPA 253), or prior approval.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Students continue playmaking research through the creation of an ensemble-generated series of public presentations. Integrates and implements the techniques acquired in studio courses. May repeat for credit.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course requires students to undertake training and experimentation through making performance as an ensemble and devising three separate performances over the term (see dates below on the schedule). Continuing the method of inquiry from BlackBox Playmaking: Collective Creation and the Theatricalities of Power, BlackBox 2020 will explore performance as a tool to analyze and re contextualize the world around us, and as Loveless says in her recent book How to Make Art at the End of the World, how research-creation can be mobilized as a mode of resistance or a force for re making.
Research-Creation exists at the intersection of academic research and artistic creation, and supports the development of knowledge and innovation through artistic expression. In this context, it will be a guide to our making process, encouraging the group to ground their making in questions, or to discover new questions which emerge from the work they have created. Students are invited to think about performance functioning as a useful and rigorous means of engaging with different kinds of knowledge, including those that might not be otherwise accessible.
The group will begin by identifying questions linked to performance, their collaborative process, or the larger cultural landscape they exist within. Through devising they will explore various ways of viewing, investigating or answering them. Along with these questions, the class will also receive various elements to include in their devised performances, or given various parameters to devise with. After each performance, we will have a discussion to explore the outcomes of the show and to determine a new set of questions to lead us into the next process.
Grading
- Class participation 15%
- Show 1 20%
- Show 2 20%
- Show 3 20%
- Written Process Reflection 15%
- Group Documentation 10%
NOTES:
Attendance/Participation
Attendance and active participation in studio and rehearsal is mandatory and essential for the successful completion of this course. Students are required to attend having prepared all material they committed to in the class or rehearsal preceding. Students will be marked on their participation for each class, and the final participation grade will be cumulative. All absences and lateness not previously agreed upon with the instructor will result in grade deductions. Students with more than one absence over the course of the semester will have one half-letter grade deducted from the participation component of their course grade for each subsequent absence.
Tardiness
Anyone arriving to class more than 10 minutes late will be counted as absent for that day’s session. Failure to attend will result in either academic penalty or a request that the student withdraw from the course.
Failure to attend will result in either academic penalty or a request that the student withdraw from the course
Registrar Notes:
SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.
Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS