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Seminar: Problems in Performance Studies (515-0-26)

Topic

Transnational Flows of Performance

Instructors

Marcela Alejandra Fuentes

Meeting Info

AM Swift Krause Studio 103: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course explores transnationalism through the lens of performance studies. While transnationalism refers to the rapid flow of goods, information, and capital across fluid geographical borders, performance studies contributes a rich conceptual understanding of embodied culture, local/global synergies, border politics, and mediated alliances that account for other flows that involve memory, diasporic identities, and (dis)belonging. The class thus offers a unique methodology that combines social and aesthetic theory in the analysis of performance practices that animate transnational aesthetic, social, and political processes. Investigating practices of transnational artistic and cultural production, we'll define the ways in which performance as a local, embodied event engages with the scale of the global and the transnational. Students will be encouraged to use performance as an object of study, analytic lens, and method, and explore their topics through their own performance-making approaches.