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DANM 247 Performances/Performativities

Performance acts and theories of performativity in visual culture from modernity to the present. Major theoretical position subtending the emergence of performances/performativities: subjectivity, identity, temporality, media, ritual, the event, the body and embodiment, collaboration, ad politics. (Also offered as History of Consciousness 247. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.)

Meeting

• Porter 245
• Tuesday 2pm to 5pm
• Instructor: Catherine Soussloff