Module Descriptors
SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
DRAM50134
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 5
15 credits
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 30
Independent Study Hours: 120
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- PORTFOLIO weighted at 40%
- PERFORMANCE weighted at 60%
Module Details
Module Resources
Performance Studios
Library
Internet resources
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.
Library
Internet resources
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.
Module Learning Strategies
Preliminary lectures will provide a contextual overview to the module and will introduce students to the key features of site-specific practice. The tutor will choose the site for exploration and will devise practical and theoretical sessions to support the generation of performance material. Practical classes will explore devising and performance-related exercises, techniques and methodologies. Theoretical sessions will explore the histories, functions and contexts of the chosen sites and will consider the meanings emerging from this kind of performance work.
Module Indicative Content
This module will explore the term 'site specific' as it is commonly used in contemporary performance practice. Through the execution and realisation of a performance-related project students will be required to engage with the histories, functions and contexts of the site and to consider the kinds of meanings emerging through site-specific performance practice. Possible sites include the historical: battle fields, museums, art galleries, stately homes; community and personal spaces: park land, car parks, shopping malls, schools, homes, cars; transitional spaces: steps, corridors, lifts, and highways. In addition to their practical work for the module, students will be required to support their study through a wide range of reading, performance tasks, methodologies and techniques.
Module Additional Assessment Details
Theoretical research portfolio, 40% [LO 2, 4]
1500 words in length
Group performance, 60%. [LO 1, 2, 3]
1 hour in length
1500 words in length
Group performance, 60%. [LO 1, 2, 3]
1 hour in length
Module Texts
Coles, A. (2006) Site-Specificity: The Ethnographic Turn, London: Black Dog
Kaye, N. (2000) Site Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation, London: Routledge
Kwon, M. (2004) One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity, MIT Press
Piasecki, S. (2007) "Ghosts on the High Path: The Nightflight Project" Performance Research, On the Road, Vol 12, No. 2
Rogoff, I. (2000) Terra Infirma, Geography's Visual Culture, London: Routledge
Kaye, N. (2000) Site Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation, London: Routledge
Kwon, M. (2004) One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity, MIT Press
Piasecki, S. (2007) "Ghosts on the High Path: The Nightflight Project" Performance Research, On the Road, Vol 12, No. 2
Rogoff, I. (2000) Terra Infirma, Geography's Visual Culture, London: Routledge