Anthropology and Social Movements
Objectives
The student should be able to:
1. Obtain the main conceptual and theoretical tools for an approach to the specificity of the Performing Space;
2. Get to know the different types of Performing Spaces and their historical evolution;
3. Recognize and articulate specific approaches about different types of performance (dance, theatre, circus, installation/hapenning, etc);
4. Identify and analyse the main contemporary tendencies of the Performing Spaces;
5. Bring to context the attended performing pieces, in relation to the performing space that is used, being sensitive to the communicational process involved;
6. Develop a theoretical/Practical work to create a visual solution for a Performing Space/Act. This will be carried out by theoretically analysing the concept and its pertinence by means of autonomous research.
General characterization
Code
722170087
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Paula Cristina Antunes Godinho
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
None
Bibliography
DELLA PORTA, Donatella; DIANI, Mário (1999) Social Movements: an introduction, London, Blackwell.
SCOTT, James (1985) Weapons of the weak - Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
idem (1990) Domination and the arts of Resistance- Hidden Transcripts, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
idem (1998) Seeing like a state – How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
idem (2009) The Art of Not Being Governed, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
TARROW, Sidney (1994) Power in movement - Social movements, collective action and politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
THOMPSON, E.P. (1971) [2008] A economia moral da multidão na Inglaterra do século XVIII, Lisboa, Antígona.
Teaching method
The course is divided into theoretical and theoretical-practical lectures (by the professor and guests),
seminars and film exhibitions
During the course, students must develop several skills and competences based on Learning Objectives.
Different Teaching-learning methodologies will be used to achieve those objectives.
Methodologies of teaching-learning:
1. Expository, to present the theoretical frames of reference
2. Participatory ,with collective seminar debates
3. Active, with individual and team presentations
4. Self-Learning - autonomous work
Evaluation method
attendance and participation(15%), Presentation of a text (25%), Written test(60%)
Subject matter
I) Historical perspective over the relation between performance and theatre architecture: from Greek amphitheatres to modern multitasks.
II) Scenic visual languages. The evolution of the visual languages within performances: from the Theatre of the World to the Happenning.
III) Study of the Visual displays involved in the Scenic Arts: Sets, Scenic displays, Props, clothes, light, video, etc.
IV) The visual expression as an answer to Performance. Installation as a template to the performing action.
V) Space and object appropriation as a strategy towards a performing action.