| Module Identifier | PF30910 | ||||||||
| Module Title | DOCUMENTING AND CRITICISING PERFORMANCE | ||||||||
| Academic Year | 2005/2006 | ||||||||
| Co-ordinator | Dr Heike Pearson-Roms | ||||||||
| Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||
| Pre-Requisite | PF20420 , PF20110 , PF20210 , PF30520 , PF30310 | ||||||||
| Co-Requisite | PF30520 | ||||||||
| Course delivery | Lecture | 10 x 1hr 30 mins lecture / demonstrations | |||||||
| Seminars / Tutorials | 2 x 1hr 45 mins tutorials | ||||||||
| Assessment |
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Typically, upon completion of the module, the student will be able:
- to review and evaluate critically their own performance practices
- to design and execute the creative documentation of such work
- to exercise personal judgment in the research and development of appropriate modes of documentation
- to accept personal responsibility for the effective documentation of self-authored work
to describe and examine techniques for the inscription and documentation of those performance genres, events and practices which do not exist as play-scripts.
to reflect critically upon and document the practical presentations devised in Semester 3.
Lecture schedule :
1. The document I : an introduction to forms of performance documentation
2. The document II : as photograph
3. The document III : as mediated object (video, film, sound recording)
4. The document IV : as mediated object 2 (digital media)
5. The document V : as text - A poetics of performance: textual strategies for non-textual performance
6. Critical genres: opinion, review, criticism
7. The use of other disciplines I : anthropology and ethnographic enquiry
8. The use of other disciplines II : archaeology and dealing with fragmentary evidence
9. The use of other disciplines III : human geography and techniques of mapping
10. The document VI: as lecture or second-order performance (performance about performance), installation or exhibition
Criteria for assessment :
Box of Artefacts/Installation at Site : in assessing the box/installation, the examiner will expect:
- effective employment of procedures discussed in the module and evidence of individual research (10% of the overall mark)
- effective relationship between the performance to be documented and the form of documentation employed (20%)
- effective inscription of performance material (10%)
- innovation in the nature and placement of deconstructed forms of academic writing (30%)
- innovation in the nature of performance documentation (30%)
The lectures will present and discuss procedures for documenting and criticising performance.
The tutorial time allows for the discussion of the feasibility of assessment assignments.
- fully conceiving and executing personal creative initiatives
- self organisation
- project planning and execution
This module is at CQFW Level 6