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