Performance-lecture

A performance lecture or lecture-performance blends aspects of teaching and performance art. Performance lectures focus on how teaching itself is a performance, and pedagogy as a mode of production.

There is a long history of performances in the fine arts that experiment with form to call attention to situational elements of teaching, education, educational contexts, and the dynamics of lecturer and audience interactions.

Performance lectures also appear in other storytelling and literary contexts, including a number of TED Talks.

Some artists that have worked in this genre include: Andrea Fraser, Coco Fusco, and Robin Deacon

Hito Steryl Bratton

Bibliography

• Milder, P. (2011). Teaching as art: The contemporary lecture-performance. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 33(1), 13-27. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41309686
• Frank, R. (2013). When form starts talking: On lecture-performances. Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, (33), 4-15. https://www.afterall.org/publications/afterall-journal-issue-33/
• Giménez Calpe, A. (2020, May). The lecture-performance: Implementing performative pedagogy in literature class. In 6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'20) (No. 30-05-2020, pp. 1001-1008). Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAd20.2020.11186