Weekly reading schedule.
Note: All reading/viewing/assignments for the week need to be completed before class.
Sept 8th. Week 1. What is the “essence” of performance and why the binary division of aesthetics and ethics?
Phelan, Peggy. “The Ontology of Performance: representation without reproduction.” Unmarked : the Politics of Performance. Routledge, 1993, 146-166
Shaw, Helen. “How Parents, Children, (and Playwrights) made Oedipus Rex and Antigone at Home.” Vulture (New York Magazine online), 14 August 2020.2020.ttps://www.vulture.com/2020/08/sophocles-in-staten-island-family-does-greek-plays-at-home.html
American Theater Editors. “Ma-Yi Theater Launches Digital Streaming, Live Capture Studio.” American Theater (online), 29 July 2020. https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/07/29/ma-yi-theater-launches-digital-streaming-live-capture-studio/
Collins-Hughes, Laura. “Digital Theater Isn’t Theater. It’s a Way to Mourn Its Absence.; critic’s Notebook”. The New York Times , July 8, 2020 Wednesday. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/theater/live-theater-absence.html
Jesse Green. “The (Virtual) Theatrical Fringe Moves Front and Center; critic’s notebook”. The New York Times, August 3, 2020 Monday. https://www.nytimes.com/svc/oembed/html/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F08%2F03%2Ftheater%2Fvirtual-theater.html#?secret=Jw3bTR0rKm
Ben Brantley, Jesse Green and Maya Phillips. “This Is Theater in 2020. Will It Last? Should It?”. The New York Times , July 12, 2020 Sunday. https://www.nytimes.com/svc/oembed/html/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F07%2F08%2Ftheater%2Fstreaming-theater-experiments.html#?secret=pQBwRWS8U7
Wallace, Naomi. “Strange Times.” The Guardian Online. 28 March, 2003. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/mar/29/theatre.artsfeatures
Harrison, Margot. “The Horror Novel Lurking In Your Online Life.” The New York Times 18 July 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/books/review/cyber-horror-virtual-life-uncanny-valley.html
September 15th. Week 2. Expanding The Boundaries of Performance.
Taylor, Diana. Chapter 1 “Framing Performance” and Chapter 4 “New Uses of Performance.” Performance. Duke University Press, 2016, 1-41 and 89-116
Sept 22th. Week 3. Liveness, Mediation, Medium
Auslander, Philip. “Introduction: An Orchid in the Land of Technology.” “Live Performance in a Mediatized Culture,” “Liveness : Performance in a Mediatized Culture. 2nd ed., Routledge, 2008, 1-9, -10-72
Westerman, Jonah. Between Action and Image: Performance as “Inframedium”’, Tate Research Feature, January 2015.cc https://www.tate.org.uk/research/features/between-action-and-image
Sept 29th. Week 4. Radical Imaginings
Artaud, Antonin. “No More Masterpieces” and “Theater of Cruelty.” The Theatre and Its Double, Trans. Victor Corti, Association Calder: Calder Publications: Riverrun Press, 1938, 55-63 and 64-67.
Brustein, Robert. “No More Masterpieces.” Theater, vol. 3, no. 2, 1971, p. 30.
Kelley, Robin D. G. “Preface,”When History Sleeps A Beginning.” Freedom Dreams : the Black Radical Imagination. Beacon Press, 2002, ix-xii, 1-36
Sahlins, Marshall. “Teach-Ins Helped Galvanize Student Activism in the 1960s. They Can Do So Again Today.” The Nation. April 6, 2017. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/teach-ins-helped-galvanize-student-activism-in-the-1960s-they-can-do-so-again-today/
Oct 6nd. Week 5. Histories and Cultural Forms
Kelley, Robin D. G. “Dreams of the New Land” .” Freedom Dreams : the Black Radical Imagination. Beacon Press, 2002, 1-36
Oct 13th. Week 6. Utopian Imaginings
Kelley, Robin D. G. “Keeping It (Sur)real: Dreams of the Marvelous.” “When History Wakes: A New Beginning” in Freedom Dreams : the Black Radical Imagination. Beacon Press, 2002, 157-199
Oct 20th. Week 7. Undoing Plots and Immobility
Hartman, Saidiya. “The Plot of Her Undoing.” Notes on Feminisms-2. The Feminist Art Coalition, 2019, 1-6
Nsele, Zamansele. “Inside the Circle: A Review of Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments.” 10 April 2020. https://mg.co.za/article/2020-04-10-a-chorus-of-black-womens-lives/embed/#?secret=iAO6mSMFOc
Minh-ha, Trin T. “The Walk of Multiplicity.” Notes on Feminisms-4. The Feminist Art Coalition, 2019. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c805bf0d86cc90a02b81cdc/t/5dba078d6b3c5850e78da8fc/1572472718083/NotesOnFeminism-4_TrinhT.Minh-ha.pdf
Oct 27th. Week 8. Black Feminist Imaginaries
Kelley, Robin D. G. “This Battlefield Called Life: Black Feminist Dreams.” Freedom Dreams : the Black Radical Imagination. Beacon Press, 2002, 135-156
Nov 3rd. Week 9. Fugitivity and Institutions
Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. “The Wild Beyond: With And For The Undercommons,” “Politics Surrounded,” “The University and The Undercommons” The Undercommons : Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Minor Compositions, 2013, 2-43. https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf
Nov. 10th. Week 10.
Individual and Group Work. Find the readings you need to create your Tome chapter.
Nov. 17h Week 11.
Individual and Group Work. Find the readings you need to create your Tome chapter.
Nov. 24h Week 12.
Individual and Group Work. Find the readings you need to create your Tome chapter.
Dec. 1st Week 13.
This is the final “official” class. Find the readings you need to create your Tome chapter.
Our public “teach in” on December 8th. Please reserve 2-6pm EST for this Zoom event.