Open Call

Contemporary Activist Visual Art Performance with Martha Wilson

CAMP FR

No Funding

Remote

Eligibility

Open to all

Number of Participants

Deadline

No deadline

Duration

November 05, 2021 - December 07, 2021

Costs

€299.00 program fee (one-time)

Facilities

Computer Lab

Housing

Home-Stay

Meals

Tea

Public Programs

Courses, Discussion, Forum, Mentors, Performances, Professional Development, Self-Directed, Workshops

Disciplines

Performance Art, Photography, Visual Arts

Languages

English

Program Description

Activist avant-garde artists have historically ignored national boundaries as well as aesthetic ones, taking regular people to be their audience and any subject or material under the sun to be appropriate to their means. Contemporary activist visual art performance practitioners view this avant-garde legacy as their own, incorporating musical, theatrical, literary, dance, film and technological elements in their work in order to address the pressing issues of our time. This course will focus on critical examples of performance art from the last century to today to analyze how artists have positioned themselves in relation to current standards of artistic production and developed techniques of provocation to activate the audience. Course work includes readings of primary and critical texts, class discussion, and performance art presentations by each member of the class presented on Zoom followed by discussion of this individual work.