ATS2287 Exploring critical performance studies in the arts
Faculty of Arts
ATS2287 Exploring critical performance studies in the arts is a level 2, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2025. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Not offered
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ATS2287
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After ATS2287
No unit lists ATS2287 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Pre-requisite: Must have completed 12 points of first year Arts units
Overview
This unit investigates the questions: What does performance do and How does performance help us understand and creatively engage our world? We will ask and answer these questions by exploring how performance practice in the arts (tools for doing such as performing, directing, writing and design) and performance theory (tools for understanding and creatively engaging) inform each other. Students will be introduced to key concepts such as ‘ritual’ and ‘myth’, ‘embodied knowing,’ ‘performativity’, ‘liveness’, ‘affect’ and ‘intersectionality’ and their application to performance practice. Students will work together to apply their explorations in theory and practice to a range of contexts such as identity, community and culture, enterprise and economics, social relations, politics, and futures.
Offerings in 2025
The 2025 handbook lists no offerings for ATS2287.
Assessment
- Key concepts in critical performance studiesWritten30%
- Theory/practice studioPresentation30%
- Performance in context original creative work and portfolioPortfolio40%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
analyse the mutually informing relationship between performance theory and practice and apply it to the analysis and evaluation of a range of arts practice
- 2
critically evaluate how contemporary performance practice and key concepts in performance studies help us understand and creatively engage our worlds
- 3
create original performance work that applies explorations in theory and practice to a range of aesthetic, community, enterprise and political questions.
Workload and teaching
- Lectures12 hours
- Tutorials24 hours
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Where it fits
ATS2287 is part of 2 areas of study in the 2025 handbook.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Felix Nobis
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Felix Nobis
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS2287?
ATS2287 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS2287 offered?
ATS2287 has no offerings listed in the 2025 handbook.
How much work is ATS2287?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does ATS2287 have an exam?
No. ATS2287 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.
Which majors and minors include ATS2287?
ATS2287 is part of Music.