General description
Process

The lectures will be staged as multi-media presentations including video and data projection.

Aims:

The aim of this module is:

To present a non-chronological and non-canonical approach to performance behaviours, practices and genres, and to performance-like activities.
To identify a number of contexts in which different types of performance may be negotiated: and the social, cultural and environmental implications of those contexts on the nature, form, function and placement of performance.
To examine these contexts in a comparative and interdisciplinary manner, drawing frmo the fields of history, anthropology, human geography, sociology, politics, rhetoric and aesthetics.