DTS4760

Gender, Body and Performance

(ART)

Rachel Fensham

12 points + 3 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton + Prohibition: VSA4760/CLS4760 + Prerequisites: Permission

Synopsis: Subject introduces the theoretical debates which construct and inform relations between concepts of gender, bodies and performance. It investigates how different discourses including visual/literary criticism and psychoanalysis have produced meanings about the body and gender. It considers the ways these discursive constructions of the body have been represented in performance, focusing on how particular technologies of representation contribute to meanings of the body in performance. A broad definition of performance will be applied, from those events or representations involving the live body and those involving a mediated body.

Assessment: Two review essays (2000 words each) : 50% + Essay (5000 words): 50%.