Performance as a Conceptual Design for Life and Society

In the search for an understanding of an anthropologically oriented art, the course takes up concepts of a broadly interpreted definition of art, a basic formula of human existence in which conceptual designs for society and life as a whole are defined, in the sense of practical philosophy, as art.
With regard to the interplay between aesthetics and existence, between art and science, and between cultural and social practice, a special focus will be placed on the question of the extent to which selected performance concepts can be fruitfully used in artistically oriented education and in aesthetic fields of practice.

Required reading

VENT, Helmi: Performance – Facetten von Lebensentwürfen
In: BASTIAN, Hans Günther / KREUTZ, Gunter: Musik und Humanität
Schott, Mainz 2003, pp. 89–106