All homework readings listed by author’s last name.
Tu 8.27
Review course policies, syllabus, and OpenLab.
Land Acknowledgement
In-class reading: Aktar
Discussion topics: Space, emotions in space, liveness
Th 8.29
Writing / Meditation
Discussion topics: Theater and audiences
Visit: Cadman Plaza-Federal Courthouse-Korean War Memorial.
Reading Due: Weinstein (pp. 19-26); Jan Cohen-Cruz (Introduction)
Assignment Due: Bring in sketch pads/notebooks and 3b-4b pencils
Tu 9.3
Class discussion/lecture: Performance and activism
Activities: Sketching; Research
Reading Due: Ching; Bread and Puppet Podcast; Gage
Thu 9.5 Classes Follow Monday Schedule
Tu 9.10
Discussion topics: Lecture and discussion: Performative architecture and voyeurism
Reading Due: Leatherbarrow
Assignment Due: Visit a public space in your neighborhood and observe how people use the space. Sketch.
Th 9.12 MEET OFF CAMPUS
Visit: Gowanus tour w/ Joseph Alexiou
In Class Activities: Take notes, sketch
Reading Due: Alexiou; Quinn
Tu 9.17
In Class Activities: Research Gowanus, Performance exercises
Review site report template
Reading Due: Van heeswijck; Boal
Th 9.19 MEET OFF CAMPUS
Visit: Gowanus (with EPA Agent Andrea Haenggi)
In Class Activities: Sketch
Reading Due: Knight; Yeginsu
GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE FRIDAY SEPT 20
Tu 9.24
Guest: Sarah Standing, lecture (4:00-4:35)
In class activities: Research street actions
Reading Due: Reeves; Curtis
Assignment Due: Site Report 1: Gowanus
Th 9.26
Visit: DWNTWN BRKLYN / Metrotech “commons”
Discussion: POPS, rules of space, subversion
Activity with Curtis and Reeves reading in response to Metrotech visit.
Reading Due: Tobocman; Stachura; Nagel (Episode 5)
Tu 10.1 NO CLASSES
Th 10.3
Guest: Ben Shepard on environmental justice & civil disobedience (3:15-4:15)
In Class Activities: NTHR Create a Vision, organize project groups
Reading Due: LES Community Gardens (podcast); Reverend Billy Videos; Smith (excerpts—see assignment)
Assignment Due: Choose and write a 100 word reflection about a Tactic for CounterTourism from the reading
Tu 10.8 NO CLASSES
*Attend 1 protest, social justice gathering, political performance, or community meeting by this date. Write a 200 word reflection on the meeting or event in Notebook. Include sketches.
Th 10.10
Guest Peter Spellane Newtown (2:30-3:30)
In Class Activities: NTHR: Map the Terrain
Reading Due: Del Signore; Newkirk
Assignment Due: Identify problem for final project (in groups)
Tu 10.15 MEET OFF CAMPUS
Visit: Newtown Creek Nature Walk
In Class Activities: Sketching
Reading Due: McLaughlin; Baker
Th 10.17
In Class Activities: Develop a question, conducting research
Reading Due: Shepard; Floradewan
Assignment Due: Draft research question for final project (in groups); Submit notebooks for midterm review
Tu 10.22 Meet in Library Projection Room (4th floor)
In Class Activities: Intervention inquiry at City Tech
Reading Due: Bread and Puppet Cheap Art Manifesto; Next Epoch Seed Library Video
Assignment Due: Site Report 2: Newtown; Select and submit a place for intervention (in groups)
Th 10.24 MEET OFF CAMPUS
Visit: La MaMa Archive
In Class Activities: Sketching
Reading Due: Emergency Index (excerpts—see assignment); Waller
Assignment Due: Read about 2 performances from the INDEX and write a 100 word reflection about how people have documented performance
Tu 10.29
In Class Activities: NTHR: Explore Tactics; Boal exercises
Reading Due: Boyd (excerpt—see assignment); Dowling
Assignment Due: Revised group research question due (in groups); Read about 1 Tactic from the Boyd text and write a 100 word reflection
Th 10.31 MEET OFF CAMPUS
Visit: Interference Archive
Reading Due: Novic
Tu 11.5
In Class Activities: Media Making for performances (Processional props and puppets) [with guest]
Assignment Due: Bring in materials for media making
Th 11.7
Visit: Performance sites
Tu 11.12 (Nora)
In Class Activities: Research, NTHR: Take Action, Developing Performance Narratives
Review Annotated Bibliography
Assignment Due: Bring in 1 source about the site where your performance will take place
Th 11.14 (Chris)
Visit: Performance Development
Tu 11.19 (Nora and Chris)
In Class Activities: Media making for performances, Refining performance narratives
Assignment Due: Site Report 3: Performance Site
Th 11.21 (split)
In Class Activities: Group Project work, research
Tu 11.26 MEET OFF CAMPUS
Performances, reflection, sketching (City Tech, Borough Hall)
*Attend 1 protest, social justice gathering, political performance, or community meeting by this date. Write a 200 word reflection on the meeting or event. Include sketches.
Th 11.28 NO CLASSES
Tu 12.3 MEET OFF CAMPUS
Performances, reflection, sketching (Borough hall, City Hall)
Th 12.5
Project site
Tu 12.10
In Class Activities: Final Project Development (computer classroom)
Th 12.12
In Class Activities: Final Project Development (computer classroom)
Tu 12.17
Final Presentations: Mental Health at CUNY, Environmental Buildings
Th 12.19
Final Presentations: NYCHA, MTA and Students
Reflections
