2023
Theatre Aesthetics
Name: Theatre Aesthetics
Code: ARC12578L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Teatro
Teaching languages: Portuguese, English
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
a) promote informed reflection on the disciplinary and historical corpus of aesthetics;
b) to stimulate the orientation of the reflection to the domain of the practices;
c) to promote the deepening of concepts, theories and texts of contemporary thought
d) to promote the mapping and recognition of contemporary artists, projects and artistic practices;
e) value the experience as a way of building knowledge;
f) stimulate critical inquiry and the ability to enunciate and solve problems through oral presentations, essays and reviews, as well as the exploration of IT (blog, moodle)
b) to stimulate the orientation of the reflection to the domain of the practices;
c) to promote the deepening of concepts, theories and texts of contemporary thought
d) to promote the mapping and recognition of contemporary artists, projects and artistic practices;
e) value the experience as a way of building knowledge;
f) stimulate critical inquiry and the ability to enunciate and solve problems through oral presentations, essays and reviews, as well as the exploration of IT (blog, moodle)
Contents
1. Elements for a theatrical aesthetic, between poiesis, mimesis and kinesis.
2. A historical perspective: mimesis as an element of artistic creation between Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary Age.
2.1. Plato, Artistóteles, Horácio: the dominant mimetic poetics of Western culture and mimesis.
2.2. Modernity, representation and crisis of representation. Contemporary readings.
3. For an aesthetic of creation: methodologies, inquiries, explorations. Mapping concepts for contemporary creation.
3.1. Aesthetics and politics. The sharing of the sensitive.
3.2. Semiotize or dessemiotize?
3.3. Participation, interactivity, interpassivity.
3.4. Transgression and limit.
3.5. Repetition and exhaustion.
3.6. Space and spatialities.
4. The theater and some of its 'others'.
4.1. Mediatization.
4.2. Inhabited installation.
4.3. Participation: eating, drinking, talking.
4.4. Ecology, activism, citizenship.
4.5. Landscape and heritage.
4.6. Investigate, create, invent, (re) produce
2. A historical perspective: mimesis as an element of artistic creation between Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary Age.
2.1. Plato, Artistóteles, Horácio: the dominant mimetic poetics of Western culture and mimesis.
2.2. Modernity, representation and crisis of representation. Contemporary readings.
3. For an aesthetic of creation: methodologies, inquiries, explorations. Mapping concepts for contemporary creation.
3.1. Aesthetics and politics. The sharing of the sensitive.
3.2. Semiotize or dessemiotize?
3.3. Participation, interactivity, interpassivity.
3.4. Transgression and limit.
3.5. Repetition and exhaustion.
3.6. Space and spatialities.
4. The theater and some of its 'others'.
4.1. Mediatization.
4.2. Inhabited installation.
4.3. Participation: eating, drinking, talking.
4.4. Ecology, activism, citizenship.
4.5. Landscape and heritage.
4.6. Investigate, create, invent, (re) produce
Teaching Methods
The UC is developed in two stages. In class, the dominant methodology is the expositive one, served by the debate, the analysis and the approximation to documents and materials of the contemporary artistic creation. Assiduity becomes a determining factor, since participation is the tool that generates problematizations, appropriations and re-uses of concepts, texts, examples, etc. Secondly, students are encouraged to develop autonomous research-creation work in any form: presentation, essay, academic work, etc. Research is here understood as a knowledge-generating process. The tutorial orientation is also a key process, which the student can and should use whenever necessary, to balance their work in and out of class.
The final evaluation scheme provides for a written exam. An examination program provides the necessary guidelines for its preparation
The final evaluation scheme provides for a written exam. An examination program provides the necessary guidelines for its preparation
Teaching Staff
- José Alberto Ferreira [responsible]
