Performance in curatorial practices sees contemporary art through the lens of the artist's body and live acts, as well as performance-based practices and curation as a means to activate social and political space and discourse with liveness. In this course, performance artist and curator River Lin presents a series of workshops and lectures on performance and live art in curatorial culture through practice-based research and knowledge. With associated events Taipei Arts Festival and Camping Asia by Taipei Performing Arts Center, where River serves as the curator, students taking part in this course will experience the selected program of both events as participatory research to strengthen their understanding of performance, dance and theatre and live art in the local and international art scene. 

Indicative references :

• Auslander, Philip. Theory for Performance Studies: A Student’s Guide, Routledge, London and New York, 2008

• Jackson, Shannon. Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics, Routledge, London and New York, 2011.

• Jones, Amelia. Body Art / Performing the Subject, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1998

• Phelan, Peggy. Unmarked: The Politics of Performance, Routledge, London and New York, 1996

• Ward, Frazer. No Innocent Bystanders: Performance Art and Audience, Dartmouth College Press, Hanover, New Hampshire, 2012