On your own:
Read assigned readings found on the reading tab. Find and watch at least 6 hours of performance on your own (expansively defined) produced since the onset of the CoVID 19 lockdown. You do not have to watch everything in its entirety. Keep a log of what you watch. You do have to find work that you can argue meets the criteria of 1.) formal aesthetic innovation and 2.) engaged with the politics of the times. Find the best work and nominate it for your group’s discussion. Write a three to five paragraph rationale for the selection you nominate. At the end of the rationale, propose at least three keywords that are descriptors for the aesthetics proposition in the work. Also, read the short readings assigned on the syllabus.
Group Work:
The morning of the day before class: Circulate the link to your nominated performance to your group and include your three to five paragraph rationale. If the talk, performance, text, audio file – whatever—is longer than 30 minutes, please identify a representative 30 minute section that everyone is required to watch.
Group Work:
The evening before class: Read all rationales and watch the online selections forward to you by your groupmates.
Full Class Work: At the synchronous class meeting Tuesdays 3-5:30 EST:
First 30 minutes. Full class meeting. Discussion of assigned reading and any class logistics.
Next seventy five minutes. Groups go into breakout rooms. One member of the group In rotation) will serve as a facilitator and notetaker. Groups will discuss and analyze the performances nominated by members of the group that week with the goal of ranking the works according to artistic innovation and political engagement. The group will also come up with four to six keywords descriptors that dominate the discussion and begin a working definition of those descriptors.
Final forty-five minutes. Return to full class. Facilitator for each group summarizes the group discussion, shows a clip of the most important work that was chosen by group and explain keywords. Q&A with students from the other groups.
After class:
UPLOAD: . 1. Your weekly viewing log, 2. Group facilitator uploads notes from the group 4. Add any descriptors to the keywords glossary on the class website. At this point, the keywords should be like a Wikipedia page for each word – you can embellish or add or edit if you think the description is not accurate. Check in with Leslie to ensure he has received all the work.