Performance and Power

SLAVIC 239 explores performance and power through political theater, performance art, and documentary film, focusing on key artists like Brecht and Eisenstein.

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What does it mean "to perform" and what does performance do? How does performance help impose or challenge oppressive structures of power? Focusing on artists and authors like Sergei Eisenstein, Bertold Brecht, Marina Abramovic, and Pussy Riot, learn about political theater in the 20th and 21st centuries, the emergence and evolution of performance art and art actionism, the aesthetic and juridical functions of documentary theater and film, and the recent performative turn in New Left poetry.

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  • Political theater
  • Performance art and actionism
  • Documentary theater and film
  • New Left poetry

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  • Understanding political theater
  • Analyzing performance art and actionism
  • Evaluating aesthetic and juridical functions
  • Examining performative turn in poetry

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