Performance & Participation in the 20th Century
Art
• Please choose one work from the following three movements: Italian Futurist Performance, Russian Mass Spectacle, and Dada Performance. What are the key overlaps between these groups, and how do they differ? Please be as specific as possible. (Clue: refer back to Claire Bishop’s chapter, “The Historic Avant-Garde,” in Artificial Hells p.41-75). Approximately two pages typed and double spaced.
• Same question, but different movements. This time, compare and contrast the “action painting” of Jackson Pollock, the performance work of Gutai, and Allan Kaprow’s Happenings. (Clue: refer back to Allan Kaprow and Jon Erikson’s article