Dr. Angeliki Avgitidou: New book: Performance Art: Education and Practice
Transart faculty member Dr.Angeliki Avgitidou is releasing a new book : Performance Art: Education and Practice available for preorder on Routledge.
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Performance Art: Education and Practice is an introduction to performance art through studio exercises and assignments activities and practice prompts that are framed by seminal moments in the history of the medium as well as the current theoretical discussions surrounding performance.
The book begins by introducing the tools of performance studio practice and the basic terminology related to performance art and its early history. The basic elements of performance, including the body, objects, space, the public, and the public sphere are approached through thematic and conceptual correlations such as objects as material autobiography, body as an expression of gendered identity, performance and the everyday, the augmented body, the archive of performance and public space as space for intervention.
The book also explores the various modalities of performance such as durational performance, participatory performance, and interventionist performance. Case studies analysed in each chapter are accompanied by reflexive questions and discussion topics. The text proposes a wide range of exercises and comprehensive practice prompts that aim to enhance performance skills, promote experimentation and encourage an experiential understanding of the theory, history, and concepts relating to performance art.
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Angeliki Avgitidou is an artist working in performance and public space. She studied as an architect (BArch Hons, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and as an artist (MA, PhD, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design). Her work has been shown in occasions that include the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, its Performance Festival, the International Biennial of Performance Deformes, the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and the 15th International Exhibition of Architecture of the Biennale of Venice. Angeliki is the author of Performance Art: The Basics. A Beginner’s Course Guide (University Studio Press, 2020). She is Associate Professor at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Western Macedonia. Angeliki has taught postgraduate courses at the University of Western Macedonia, the Hellenic Open University, and the Transart Institute.
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