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| Semester | fall semester 2021 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Balz Andrea Alter (balz.alter@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | In this course we venture into a format with roots in conceptual art. Existing since the 1960s as a subgenre of performance, the lecture-performance or performance-lecture has its roots in the performance and conceptual art of the 1960s, and balances on the boundary between art and academia. And that ist the moment 'religion' as a concept comes into play. 'Religion' as the ultimate sensemaking framework of actors in the terrestrial field. In this course the lecture space is becoming an experimental performance space. What we focus on is a type of presentation that goes beyond the academic format of the lecture. Artists (not only visual or performance) use the lecture to turn it into a performance space which fuses aspects of dance, drama and of visual and other media disciplines. Hybrid it borrows heavily from anywhere else: Often from elements such as transmedia storytelling, music, performative arts and other technologies and ecologies. It acts on multi-levels to juxtapose and contrast and subvert scientific arguments playing 'religious' rhetorics and tools. The performance lecture at its best has varied functions and elements operating on multiple levels and layers in the field of our ecologies of attention. These can form an auditive, haptic and visual rhetoric or performative actions and artistic non-sequiturs. Techniques of storytelling and propaganda or more straight forward education lectures and audiovisual material are used to explore the relationship between sounds, images, bodies, senses and texts or between consensus and facts, or contrasting ideas or narratives. It questions the audience/performer/viewer/listener divisions in experience and plays with inter- and intra-action to open up a reflexive spaces enabling us to challenge the dichotomies between 'sciences'/'arts' and 'religions'. |
| Learning objectives | 1) Students will discover ways of detecting rhetorics of 'religon' in speaches as disparate as 'Going to space to benefit Earth' (2019) from Jeff Bezos and 'Von der Sorge' (2021) from Luisa Neubauer at the Berliner Dom. 2) Students will exchange and develop with invited artists and researchers to develop their own approaches towards the format. 3) Based on their own field of research students will be given the opportunity to create and perform their own short performance lecture (15'). |
| Bibliography | Milder, Patricia (2011). Teaching as Art: The Contemporary Lecture-Performance. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. Cambridge: MIT-Press. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14-täglich | Wednesday | 10.15-12.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 211 |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 22.09.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Theologie, Kleiner Seminarraum 201 |
| Wednesday 06.10.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Wednesday 20.10.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 211 |
| Wednesday 03.11.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 211 |
| Wednesday 17.11.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 211 |
| Wednesday 01.12.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 211 |
| Wednesday 15.12.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 211 |
| Modules |
Modul: Alternative Religionsgeschichte (Master's degree subject: Science of Religion) Modul: Aufbaustudium Religionskomparatistik und Religionstheorie (Bachelor's degree subject: Study of Religion) Modul: Erweiterung Methodenkenntnisse BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Study of Religion) Modul: Erweiterung Religionswissenschaft (Bachelor's degree subject: Study of Religion) Modul: Religion, Narration und Medien (Master's degree subject: Science of Religion) Modul: Religionswissenschaft 2 (RWTh 2) (Master's Studies: Theology) Modul: Religionswissenschaft 2 (RWTh 2) (Master's Studies: Theology (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Religionswissenschaft 2 (RWTh 2) (Master's degree subject: Theology) Module: Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies (Master's Studies: Interreligious Studies) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Religionswissenschaft |