Metamorfoses do Espectáculo (not translated)
Code
722011097
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Cláudia Guerra Madeira
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To analyze the metamorphosis present in the concepts and practices of the performing arts in a long-term historical basis, giving special emphasis to the works and artistic processes that can better explain the hybridism of modern art. There will be analyzed the relations between: art and science, in order to explain concepts such as laboratory, experiments or quasi-artistic types, etc.; art and travel (in its various forms), in order to explain the perspective of ethnographic research or contamination, of fusion, particularly by
addressing interculturalism; art and life, in order to discuss transgressions to the artistic canons, specifically excess of spectacle, or, conversely, the anti-spectacle or artistic intervention. This approach aims to provide students with conceptual and theoretical tools that allow them to discuss the contemporary performing arts with underlying historical context.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
I. Cycles in the scenic worlds periodic repetitions throughout history Cycles versus ruptures Latour, Stross, Eagleton, Hannerz, Eco;
Hybridism as the dominant paradigm of art .
II. Evolution of metamorphoses and hybridisms in the performing arts from poetry to ciberspectacle.
III. Metamorphoses in the ways of making scenic worlds relations between art, science and life.
The issue of metamorphoses /of hybridism and monsters in performing arts;
Metamorphoses in scenic practices.
Metamorphoses of spectacle and science the concept of laboratory, experiment and quasi-type in performing arts.
Metamorphoses of spectacle and travel ethnographic research, contamination, fusion, interculturalism in the performing arts .
Metamorphose between spectacle and life / art and reality excess spectacle and anti-spectacle.
Bibliography
GOLBERG, Roselee, A Arte da Performance Do Futurismo ao Presente, Lisboa, Orfeu Negro, 2007.
GOODMAN, Nelson, Modos de Fazer Mundos, Porto, Edições Asa, 1995 (1978).
JENKS, Chris, Transgressions, London, Routledge, 2003.
JIMINEZ, Marc (org.), Art et Mutations: Les Nouvelles Relations Esthétiques, Paris, Klinscksieck, 2004.
LISTA, Marcela (2006), LOeuvre Dart Totale à la Naissance des Avant-gardes, Paris, CTHS, INHA.
MADEIRA, Cláudia (2008), O Hibridismo nas Artes Performativas em Portugal, Tese de Doutoramento, Lisboa, ICS.
KOSTELANERZ, Richard, The Theatre of Mixed Means, Great Britain, The Dial Press, 1970.
REMSHARDT, Ralf E. (2004), Staging the Savage God The Grotesque in Performance, USA, Southern Illinois University Press.
ZOLBERG, Vera, CHERBO, Joni Maya (orgs.) (1997), Outsider Art Contesting Boundaries in Contemporary Culture, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press.
Teaching method
Both reading of texts and audiovisual equipment will support the teacher´s theoretical presentations, in order to promote critical discussion in the classroom. Study visits, about which students will ellaborate written reports, will favour knowledge and the training of judgement and criticism skills. Students must obligatorily do oral presentations (including the preparation of audiovisual material) which will enrich the seminar with the introduction of different cases and perspectives about different performing issues.
Evaluation method
The evaluation will consist of a critical essay about contemporary performing arts and a critical research about a topic, an author or work, which will also be presented orally.