Once More with Feeling: Introduction to Performance Art Re-enactment

London Met invests in you: from our purpose-built newsroom to our state-of-the-art superlab, we aim to create a stimulating and unique learning environment for our students. Our courses have received top marks from the UK's Quality Assurance Agency and many are accredited by a wide range of professional bodies. Our lecturers are leaders in their field: in the latest Research Assessment Exercise, over two-thirds of the University’s research output was judged to be world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised.

We go the extra mile with our investment. We do this through our five-star promise, our pledge to connect our students with opportunities to boost their career skills. We put employability at the heart of our curriculum through helping you find placements, work experience and voluntary opportunities across a wide variety of organisations.

The course will also look at the varying strategies used by artists in creating re-enactments such as homage, parody, sampling and re-contextualisation. Other issues that will be touched upon include: theatricality verses authenticity, high and low forms, originality and repetition and site-specificity. Each week a short theoretical text on performance art from the following books will be assigned which we will discuss during the following session:

• Marina Abramovic, 7 Easy Pieces (Charta, 2007)
• History Will Repeat Itself (Revolver, 2007)
• Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History (Intellect, 2012)

Techniques taught:

• monologue
• tableaux vivant
• durational performance
• re-enactment
• performance art lecture
• phototherapy
• body art
• public intervention

By the end of the course, students will have knowledge of the following:

• creation of re-enactments individually and in groups
• documentation of re-enactments produced during the course
• performance art history and contemporary practice