Based on performative group experiments integrated into the course, the participants' bodies, experiences, and surroundings will become essential components of the material we use and explore in the studio. Students will discover for themselves how performance practices employ diverse artistic strategies to construct, alter or influence situations. Through their own experimental

works, they will learn how live performances, immersive environments, socially engaged projects, activism, and digital interventions all shape expanded performative practices that constitute contemporary forms of live projects.

They will furthermore learn to understand and test the practical and formal parameters that constitute the medium. Concepts and approaches that have shaped performance art and its history up until present day will be presented and discussed to understand the development of contemporary live-art.

The art world is a highly codified social field with very specific rituals, power dynamics and structures. An expanded performative practice today must inevitably deal with the social, institutional, and economic structures that surround and constitute artistic production and presentation. During the studio sessions, students will engage in a discursive environment to learn how to navigate within these structures, to address them on their own terms and to ask the question: What is the role of performance art in society and what can its purpose be today?