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

    Peformance Beyond the Proscenium
  • Unit Code

    PSM2000
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jeremy NEIDECK

Description

This unit focuses on site specific, immersive and participatory styles of performance that take place outside of traditional performance venues. Students are introduced to the theory and history of this approach to making performance, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and the community and cultural significance of placemaking in performance. Students are made aware of the creative and practical opportunities and challenges of this kind of work through critically examining existing works by well-known practitioners. They apply knowledge and understanding of the theory and history in this field to conceive, develop and present ideas for their own hypothetical, original site specific, immersive,or participatory performance project.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will undertake field trips during the hours laid down by the unit coordinator and these may occur at times outside the identified semester weeks.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply historical and theoretical knowledge of site specific, immersive or participatory performance to the development of new project ideas.
  2. Research a site or location to develop a performative response to placemaking.
  3. Communicate creative ideas for site specific, immersive or participatory performance projects in industry relevant formats.

Unit Content

  1. Managing groups including community stakeholder relations in a hypothetical site specific, immersive or participatory performance project setting.
  2. Ecological and sustainable approaches to performance making.
  3. Performance collaborations with the non-human world.
  4. Fundamental skills in researching sites and locations including considering their histories, stories, architectures, current uses and community and cultural significance.
  5. Awareness of and sensitivity to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives of placemaking in performance.
  6. Critical discussion of practice and the use of critical feedback to develop ideas for placemaking in performance.
  7. Creation of digital portfolios.

Learning Experience

WIL - Field Experience

Students experience an environment where they observe and/or participate in the application of theoretical knowledge and skills in a professional setting, under the supervision of an expert or professional in the field. Examples include study tours, observation, shadowing, fieldwork, industry tours.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will attend a series of classes and engage in learning activities via the ECU Learning Management System. The unit will require students to participate in field trips and presentations in non-traditional spaces on and off campus.

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
PresentationPresent a work in progress40%
PortfolioElectronic portfolio of creative project in development60%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

PSM2000|1|1

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

    Peformance Beyond the Proscenium
  • Unit Code

    PSM2000
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jeremy NEIDECK

Description

This unit focuses on site specific, immersive and participatory styles of performance that take place outside of traditional performance venues. Students are introduced to the theory and history of this approach to making performance, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and the community and cultural significance of placemaking in performance. Students are made aware of the creative and practical opportunities and challenges of this kind of work through critically examining existing works by well-known practitioners. They apply knowledge and understanding of the theory and history in this field to conceive, develop and present ideas for their own hypothetical, original site specific, immersive,or participatory performance project.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will undertake field trips during the hours laid down by the unit coordinator and these may occur at times outside the identified semester weeks.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply historical and theoretical knowledge of site specific, immersive or participatory performance to the development of new project ideas.
  2. Research a site or location to develop a performative response to placemaking.
  3. Communicate creative ideas for site specific, immersive or participatory performance projects in industry relevant formats.

Unit Content

  1. Managing groups including community stakeholder relations in a hypothetical site specific, immersive or participatory performance project setting.
  2. Ecological and sustainable approaches to performance making.
  3. Performance collaborations with the non-human world.
  4. Fundamental skills in researching sites and locations including considering their histories, stories, architectures, current uses and community and cultural significance.
  5. Awareness of and sensitivity to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives of placemaking in performance.
  6. Critical discussion of practice and the use of critical feedback to develop ideas for placemaking in performance.
  7. Creation of digital portfolios.

Learning Experience

WIL - Field Experience

Students experience an environment where they observe and/or participate in the application of theoretical knowledge and skills in a professional setting, under the supervision of an expert or professional in the field. Examples include study tours, observation, shadowing, fieldwork, industry tours.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will attend a series of classes and engage in learning activities via the ECU Learning Management System. The unit will require students to participate in field trips and presentations in non-traditional spaces on and off campus.

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
PresentationPresent a work in progress40%
PortfolioElectronic portfolio of creative project in development60%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

PSM2000|1|2