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Week 1 - Introduction AM Session: We begin by looking at the unit overview: the topics we will cover and the modes of working we will employ. Then, we turn to a case study, Rosana Cade's piece Walking:Holding, a one-to-one, site-responsive, participatory performance for public spaces, and analyse it as a way of opening the questions we will return to throughout the term. BEFORE THE SESSION / PREPARATION / 1. Listen to Rosana Cade discussing Walking: Holding: For more info about the performance: PM Session: In your study groups, read through Jacques Rancière's The Emancipated Spectator (attached), a key text regarding performance spectatorship and artist-audience relationship. (Some additional context for Jacques Rancière: Once read, some questions to consider together: 1. Rancière presents a dichotomy of "passive" and "active" spectators. Can you think of times you have been an active spectator at a performance? A time you were a passive spectator? Do you have a preference? 2. As artists, how do you feel about the possibility of an audience influencing your work and practice? How do you feel about giving audiences agency during our performances? 3. What kind of relationship artistically and politically speaking, do you want to have with your audiences? How do you invite them into the work and what is the role given to audiences in your work, the power given to audiences in your work? 4. How is power is distributed within your work? Who does your work give power to? Who does it put in charge? And how is this different to the outside world? Or how does it replicate the outside world? Upload your notes and outcomes to the Study Group folder on Teams.