This module will explore the practice of 'site specific' performance. Through the execution and realisation of a practical 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.

Viva, 30% [LO 2 and 4]

Group performance, 70%. [LO 1, 2, 3]
1 hour in length

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
Rogoff, I. (2000) Terra Infirma, Geography's Visual Culture, London: Routledge

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.

Preliminary workshopswill provide a contextual overview to the module and will introduce students to the key features of site-specific practice. The module leader will choose the site for exploration and will devise practical and theoretical sessions to support the generation of performance material. You 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.