Performance: Attention, Sensation, Perception

DAN2154.02
Course System Home Terms Spring 2019 Performance: Attention, Sensation, Perception

Course Description

Summary

Attention is the medium of performance. Performers conduct attention, both theirs and the audience’s. Through a series of embodied practices, we will work with qualities and directions of attention, and explore performance from the perspective of the senses. Seeing and being seen, hearing and being heard, touching and being touched, moving and being moved, we will investigate the subjective experience of the performer as the site where the perception of a witness or audience is shaped. "People know what they do, frequently they know why they do what they do; what they don't know is what what they do does." - Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilisation: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (March 20, 27, 30, April 3)

Prerequisites

None.

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Corequisites

Corequisites

Instructor

  • Eleanor Bauer

Day and Time

Academic Term

Spring 2019

Area of Study

Credits

1

Course Level

2000

Maximum Enrollment

20