The Idea of Staging and Transforming Spaces

This course focuses on contemporary approaches to and central ideas about “space as a laboratory for occupation and transformation”, the main areas of emphasis being “music and dance in the public space” and “the mediatized space” in their various social, economic and political aspects. In order to understand and classify the aesthetic backgrounds of the aforementioned approaches, several 20th-century predecessors of current manifestations of the occupation and transformation of spaces will be presented. The central questions dealt with in the course will be:

• What conception of art lies behind the ideas about occupying and transforming space?
• What functions are assumed by public and mediatized space in the context of music and dance or music and dance education?
• What didactic significance can these interdisciplinary concepts have for music and dance education, and with what specific approaches can teachers react to the developments that have been presented?

The orientation of the course as well as the aesthetic and didactic discussion will be based on selected texts and on audio and video examples (a list of reading and audiovisual material will be provided in class).

Project Page: In Endless Halls

Required reading

FOUCAULT, Michel: Andere Räume
In: BARCK, Karlheinz et al. (eds.): Aisthesis. Wahrnehmung heute oder Perspektiven einer anderen Ästhetik
Reclam, Leipzig 1990, pp. 34–46