Expanded Performance: reading group Maria Pask

During the course of Expanded Performance the reading group led by Maria Pask is looking into the concept of 'expanded' performance, institutional working methods and audience engagement. Below a list of the meetings and the texts under discussion.

Meeting 1:
Thursday 6 September 2012, 16-18 hrs
Rosalind Krauss, Sculpture in the expanded field.
October, Vol.8, Spring, 1979, pp30-44.
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Meeting 2:
Friday 21 September 2012, 15-17 hrs
Mieke Bal, Performance and Performativity,
Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide.
University of Toronto Press, 2002, pp174-212.
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Meeting 3:
Thursday 11 October 2012, 15-17 hrs
Claire Bishop, Unhappy days in the art world? De-skilling Theater, Re-skilling Performance'
The Brooklyn Rail, Dec. 2011/Jan. 2012.
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Meeting 4:
Tuesday 6 November 2012, 15-17 hrs
Jacques Rancière, The Emancipated Spectator.
Verso, 2009, pp1-23.
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Meeting 5:
Wednesday 21 November 2012, 15-17 hrs
Brad Haseman, Rupture and Recognition: Identifying the Performative Research Paradigm
Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, Estelle Barrett and Barbara Bolt (eds.),
I.B. Taurus & Co. 2007, pp 27-34
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Meeting 6:
Friday 30 November 2012, 15-17 hrs
Brainstorm meeting at Stroom Den Haag
Presentations by Anna Moreno, Maja Bekan, Maria Pask.

Meeting 7:
Thursday 6 December 2012, 16-18 hrs
Ian White, Performer, Audience, Mirror: Cinema, Theatre and the Idea of the Live
The Sensible Stage, Bridget Crone (eds.),
Picture This, 2012, pp 30-43

Meeting 8:
Thursday 13 December 2012, 19 hrs
Conversation with Mieke Bal and CP group at de Appel Amsterdam.
Text: Mieke Bal, Performance and Performativity,
Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide.
University of Toronto Press, 2002, pp174-212.

 

A page from Rosalind Krauss, 'Sculpture in the expanded field'

Mieke Bal, 'Performance and Performativity', Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide

Jacques Rancière, 'The Emancipated Spectator'

'Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry'

Question Anna Moreno: Brainstorm meeting 30 November 2012

The Sensible Stage

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