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Course Plan: https://kursplaner.gu.se/pdf/kurs/en/VBKHAP

This elective course, worth 7.5 credits is at advanced level (MFA) and will be taught by Jason E. Bowman in Fall 2021.

The course language will be English and it will be taught online via zoom using the following link for all sessions:

https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/4953033554?pwd=cHVCWkZteFA2TW42LzlWZFJIbEsrUT09 (Links to an external site.)

Meeting ID: 495 303 3554
Passcode: Happening

The teaching takes place over 6 intensive sessions paced over the term. Students are expected to also undertake course work outside of the teaching sessions. 

The course combines lectures, seminars and workshops. Students will develop a practical project that develops from forms and concepts of happenings and 'the everyday'. There is also a written component to the course.

Covid-19 and particular recommendations and protocols may influence how students develop and 'perform' their projects, including the choice of sites, situations, and forms of interaction etc.

About the teacher:

Jason is the Programme Director of the MFA Fine Art. He has a long history of working with performance - live and otherwise, ranging from text instruction works, video works, installation and performing with people and objects - in various contexts. This includes his own early works in the 1990's  which included live performances commissioned by organisations such as the ICA (London), Hull Time Based Arts, the Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow), the National Review of Live Art (UK), Franklin Furnace (New York City), de Beweeging (Antwerp), and Its Queer up North (Manchester) amongst others. Archival holdings on his early works are held in the collections of Bristol University and the Live art Development Agency (LADA, London). He was previously a Co-Director of New Work Network - a now demised network of over 1200 performance makers. His curatorial projects engaging performance include the first European survey of the practices of Yvonne Rainer (2010) for Tramway (Glasgow) and the first survey of the art and organising of the Theatre of Mistakes (1974-81) for Raven Row gallery, London (2017) and Setting the Table (2019) for BALTIC Contemporary Arts (Gateshead). The latter two were co-funded by the Swedish Research Council.

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