CLASS SCHEDULE
(Note: This schedule is subject to change. I will make every effort to notify you as soon as possible of any changes.)
AUGUST 30: COURSE INTRODUCTION
Syllabus Review
ITF Introduction & Course Webpage Overview
Discuss idNYC membership
SEPTEMBER 6: MAKING SENSE OF ART
Readings: Berger, Ways of Seeing (pp. 1-64)
Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art (Ch 3.)
Fuchs, “A Short Visit to a Small Planet”
SEPTEMBER 7 (Thurs): EVENT 1: HIGH LINE PERFORMANCE & WALK, ALEXANDRA PIRICI, THRESHOLD
6:00pm-7:30pm (meet at 30th St. and 10th Ave in front of THINK coffee)
Readings: Please skim the following online articles before our site visit:
Phillip Lopate, “Above Grade: On the High Line”
Jeremiah Moss, “Disney World on the Hudson”
High Line website: http://www.thehighline.org/
**Reminder: Blog Post Due Sept 12 by Noon
SEPTEMBER 13: EVENT 2: NY at its Core & AIDS at Home, Museum of the City of New York
(Meet at Hunter for class and we will travel to museum together for our 4:15pm
tour)
Readings: Stuart Hall, Representation (Ch 1)
Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art (Ch 4)
Elizabeth Currid, The Warhol Economy (pp. 1-16)
Lebowitz, “The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community”
SEPTEMBER 15 (Fri): EVENT 3: Café Müller/The Rite of Spring, BAM, 7:30pm
(Meet out front of the Howard Gilman Opera House no later than 7pm.)
SEPTEMBER 18 (Mon): MACAULAY NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
5-7 PM, BROOKLYN MUSEUM
SEPTEMBER 20: NO CLASS SCHEDULED.
**Reminder: Blog Post Due Sept 26 by Noon.
SEPTEMBER 27: DANCING RITES
*Post-Discussion on Museum exhibits and Café Muller/The Rite of Spring
*Distribute and Discuss Research Project Description
*Assign iMovie project teams in class
Readings: Jays, Interview on dancing the Rite of Spring
Roy, A Step by Step Guide to dance: Pina Bausch/Tanztheater Wuppertal
Boynton, Pina Bausch’s Last Dance
Harss, Pina Bausch Company: This is Theater, and These are Humans”
Kourlas, Wim Wenders’s Pina: Without Her but For Her
IN-CLASS SCREENINGS: Wim Wenders, Pina
Nijinsky/Joffrey Ballet
Sept 27-Oct 9th: EVENT 4: Visit the New York Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center on your own to watch the 1996 Broadway production in the Theatre on Film & Tape Archive (NOTE: An appointment is required in advance by calling 212-870-1642; You will need a student ID and NYPL Card; DVD Call Number is NCOV 1945; Your research purpose is “Class Assignment”). Open Hours available HERE
OCTOBER 4: DOWNTOWN THEATRE THEN AND NOW
Readings: Sam Shepard, Buried Child
Brantley, NY Times Review, Buried Child (1996)
NY Times Obituary for Sam Shepard
Young Jean Lee, Straight White Men
Interview with Young Jean Lee
Wiki Page on Identity Politics (Skim)
Suggested Reading: Patricia Ybarra, Young Jean Lee’s Cruel Dramaturgy
**Reminder: Blog Post Due Oct 10 @ 12noon
OCTOBER 11: LIBRARY RESEARCH WORKSHOP
Class held in the Hunter Library E404 Classroom
*Reminder I: 1-Paragraph Proposal due for Final Research Paper Topic (emailed before class)
**Reminder II: *1-Paragraph Proposal of your iMovie project (emailed before class with your group members copied)
OCTOBER 18: Queer Aesthetics: Gender, Camp, and Drag Performance
Readings: Sontag, “Notes on Camp”
Davy, “Fe/Male Impersonation: The Discourse of Camp”
Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution”
Charles Ludlam, “Ridiculous Theater Manifesto” and The Mystery of Irma Vep (Part I, Part II)
Optional Performance: 30th Anniversary of the Ridiculous Theater, Charles Ludlam, Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide, La Mama Theatre, Nov 2-19 ($25 student tix)
October 17/19 (Tues/Thurs): EVENT 5: Trigger: Gender as Weapon, New Museum, 7-9pm (“Pay what you can’ hours. I will arrive at 6:30pm to get in line.)
**Reminder: Blog Post Due Oct 24 by Noon on first visit to iMovie Project space (with image)
OCTOBER 23 (Mon): EVENT 6: Carolee Schneemann Retrospective, Kinetic Painting (MOMA PS1 in Queens. Free with CUNY ID. )
OCTOBER 25: ART & OBSCENITY/ iMovie Workshop (Note: bring your laptops to class)
Readings: Schneemann, “The Obscene Body/Politic”
Schneider, “Binary Terror and the Body Made Explicit”
NOVEMBER 1: NO CLASS MEETING.
Use class time to complete your revised proposal annotated bibliographies
**DUE: Revised Proposal and Annotated Bibliography (by email)*
**Reminder: Blog Post Due Nov 7th on second visit to iMovie Project space (with image)
NOVEMBER 8: THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION (1)
Keyword Summary, “Orientalism” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
Entry on Madama Butterfly in Opera Grove
Stewart, “A Fight at the Opera”
David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
Degabriele, “FROM MADAME BUTTERFLY TO MISS SAIGON: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF POPULAR ORIENTALISM”
Kondo, “M. Butterfly: Orientalism, Gender, and a Critique of Essentialist Identity”
NOVEMBER 9 (Thurs): EVENT 7: Madama Butterfly, MET Opera
(Meet at Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center no later than 7pm )
Read in advance: A Theatregoer’s Guide to Attending the Metropolitan Opera”
NOVEMBER 15: Individual Project Meetings (No Formal Class Meeting held) EVENT 8: M. Butterfly, Cort Theatre
(Meet outside the theatre at 7pm.)
**Reminder: Blog Post Due Nov 21 by Noon.
NOVEMBER 22: Cross-Cultural Performance
Collins-Hughes, “New Flight for a New ‘Butterfly’” (NY Times)
Ben Brantley Review in NY Times
UNESCO entry and Video on Kunqu Chinese Opera
Kunqu Theater History
China’s Cultural Revolution Explained
NOVEMBER 29: Urban Space Video Projects due. IN-CLASS SCREENINGS & DISCUSSION.
WEEK OF DECEMBER 1: EVENT 9: Attend Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983, MOMA (Free with CUNY ID)
DECEMBER 2 & 3 STEAM FESTIVAL, MACAULAY BUILDING
**Reminder: Blog Post Due Dec 5 by Noon.
DECEMBER 6: PEER REVIEW WORKSHOP.
DUE: Essay Drafts (Print a copy for class and email to me)
DECEMBER 13: NO CLASS SCHEDULED (READING DAY).
DECEMBER 20: FINAL PAPERS DUE. CLASS PRESENTATIONS.
