School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Site Specific Production and Presentation
  • Unit Code

    BPA2008
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Alexa Meredith TAYLOR

Description

This unit focuses on the research, creation and presentation of site-specific, immersive and participatory styles of performance that take place outside of a traditional theatre venue. Students explore alternative processes to performance creation, extending and applying knowledge gained in BPA2006 to create a new site-specific, immersive or participatory performance. They execute a group project with staff or guest artists to develop and demonstrate a unique set of performance skills including logistics, risk management, audience facilitation and what it means to 'act' or perform in non-theatre spaces and contexts.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have successfully completed BPA2006.

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in Y97.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform the skills required in the context of site-specific or immersive work at a high standard.
  2. Contribute to the creative process for site-specific performance through collaboration, research and experimentation with devising techniques.
  3. Collaborate on the execution of a site-specific, immersive or participatory performance in the role/s required by the project.
  4. Generate performance ideas through conducting improvisations or devising tasks in response to given site or location.
  5. Research a site or location as the basis for creating site- specific performance.

Unit Content

  1. Managing groups including community stakeholder relations.
  2. Opportunities and challenges of rehearsing/performing in public spaces.
  3. Collaboration and the relationship between performer, audience and space/site.
  4. Performing and dealing with audience/spectator/participant reactions in site-specific, immersive or participatory work.
  5. Research for site-specific performance including taking into account history, story, architecture, current use, and community or other stakeholders.
  6. Planning, logistics and risk management for site-specific, immersive and participatory performance.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered36 x 3 hour practical classNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered6 x 3 hour workshopNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentResearch Assignment40%
Performance ^Preparation and Performance60%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Site Specific Production and Presentation
  • Unit Code

    BPA2008
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Alexa Meredith TAYLOR

Description

This unit focuses on the research, creation and presentation of site-specific, immersive and participatory styles of performance that take place outside of a traditional theatre venue. Students explore alternative processes to performance creation, extending and applying knowledge gained in BPA2006 to create a new site-specific, immersive or participatory performance. They execute a group project with staff or guest artists to develop and demonstrate a unique set of performance skills including logistics, risk management, audience facilitation and what it means to 'act' or perform in non-theatre spaces and contexts.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have successfully completed BPA2006.

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in Y97.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform the skills required in the context of site-specific or immersive work at a high standard.
  2. Contribute to the creative process for site-specific performance through collaboration, research and experimentation with devising techniques.
  3. Collaborate on the execution of a site-specific, immersive or participatory performance in the role/s required by the project.
  4. Generate performance ideas through conducting improvisations or devising tasks in response to given site or location.
  5. Research a site or location as the basis for creating site- specific performance.

Unit Content

  1. Managing groups including community stakeholder relations.
  2. Opportunities and challenges of rehearsing/performing in public spaces.
  3. Collaboration and the relationship between performer, audience and space/site.
  4. Performing and dealing with audience/spectator/participant reactions in site-specific, immersive or participatory work.
  5. Research for site-specific performance including taking into account history, story, architecture, current use, and community or other stakeholders.
  6. Planning, logistics and risk management for site-specific, immersive and participatory performance.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered36 x 3 hour practical classNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered6 x 3 hour workshopNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentResearch Assignment40%
Performance ^Preparation and Performance60%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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