AMP42118 Composition 2: Materiality (Autumn 2019)
Facts about the course
- ECTS Credits:
- 10
- Responsible department:
- Norwegian Theatre Academy
- Teaching language:
- English
- Duration:
- ½ year
The course is connected to the following study programs
Obligatory course in Master in Performance (120 ECTS)
Absolute requirements
Passed all exams in 2nd semester
Lecture Semester
3rd semester
The student's learning outcomes after completing the course
The student will:
- gain knowledge of philosophies of materiality and how those lines of thought are linked with ethics. Questions that will be raised are among others: what has life, what has agency, what has ownership, who or what creates a form?
- gain skills in how to relate to and provoke different kinds of material relevant for each individual project, exploring the status and implication of found and made materials, both physical and ephemeral
- learn to question the nature of materials; how they come into being, how they move, and how they interact with the surroundings.
- gain skills in defining and composing with materials of various kinds in different
Content
Departing from the individual master projects, this course aims at providing time to explore the material aspects of each project. Students will compose and recompose with material (material is understood as everything from bodies, to sound, text, objects, light etc.), introducing and experimenting with unexpected materials related to each project. This will take place individually and in groups. The course will include one or two introductory workshop sessions with guest teachers or teaching staff focusing on relating compositional strategies to theory / practice.
Forms of teaching and learning
There will be one or two mandatory workshops with guest artists and/ or staff, introducing the spatial strategies, philosophical framework and practical research tasks related to the explorations of composition and materiality in each master project. This course will include self-study individually and in self-organized groups. Tutoring sessions will follow the self- study.
Workload
Approx. 300 hours
Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam
Workshop teachers will give short practical assignments individually and/or in groups. The course will end with a group reflection where each student will orally and spatially present their research on materiality and how it has provoked and questioned their master project. An attendance of minimum 80 % is required.
Examination
Verbal examination
Duration: 20-30 minutes individual examination plus plenum discussion.
Assessment of student achievement of course's learning outcomes is accomplished by conclusion of the semester by structured discussion between the student, the student's advisor and one employee lecturer, based on the participation in workshops and the presentation of individual research at the final group reflection session.
Uses verbal feedback. Uses the grade pass / fail.
Examiners
To be announced spring 2018
Conditions for resit/rescheduled exams
To be announced spring 2018
Course evaluation
See the main program plan.
Literature
There will be a predefined bibliography with central philosophical and theoretical texts onmateriality, object oriented philosophy and new materialism. Examples are:
- Benso, S. (2000) The Face of Things, A Different Side of Ethics, Albany: State University of New York Press
- Garcia, T. (2014) Form and Object, A Treatise on Things, Oxford University Press
- Harman, G. (2005) Guerilla Metaphysics, Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things, Carus Publishing Company
- Heidegger, M. (1971) Poetry, Language, Thought, HarperCollins, New York
- Hodder, I. (2012) Entangled: an archaeology of the relationships between humans and things, John Wiley and Sons, Inc
- Bennett, J. (2010) Vibrant Matter - A Political Ecology of Things, Duke University Press
- Coole, D. & Frost, S. (eds.) (2010) New Materialisms, Ontology, Agency, and Politics. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
- Morton, T. (2013) Realist Magic Objects, Ontology, Causality. Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press.
- Schimmel, P. (1998) Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object. New York: Themes and Hudson.