This cumulative project is worth 25 % of your overall class grade. Projects will be graded based on the following criteria:
- 20% Analytical Take
- 20% Artistic Representation Take
- 20% Quotidian Performance Take-
- 10% Overall Cohesiveness (includes presentation frame)
- 20% 3-5 page Project Reflection + Bibliography
- 10% Self Evaluation
Objectives:
- Demonstrate their understanding of semester long discussion about the political, aesthetic, and social significance of performance & form.
- develop at least one previous idea (from a journal or class post).
- extend examination of a particular text and/or class inquiry.
- reflect on the ways in which these black cultural text demand both consideration and participation.
- interrogate their own performance practices as a student, thinker, and whole person.
Overview
For this project you will explore a critical question related to this course material in three different forms and/or mediums. One of your takes should be legible as an academic analysis; one should be legible as an artistic representation; and one should be legible as an everyday performance.
Guidelines
- 1-2 of your takes should develop from an earlier post and/or journal entry assignment.
- It’s up to you to decide whether you develop a journal entry into an analysis take (developing a close reading observation into a more flushed out interpretive claim or thesis); a quotidian performance; or an artistic representation (e.g. returning to a side doodle or a creative entry to flush it out further OR transforming what was originally more a close reading journal entry into a dramatic script).
- Unless otherwise instructed by the professor, your academic analysis take should be in the form of a 4-5 page close reading analysis paper (i.e. a more flushed out close reading post aka a conference paper).
- In addition to the three takes, your final project should include:
- a 3-5 page reflection essay on the medium, form, and content choices of each take and their relation to each other.
- a presentation frame that brings them all together (i.e. a blog post, a portfolio, a poster project, a video recording in which the analysis paper is read out loud as an introduction to the performances, a podcast, etc.)
- a self evaluation (handout to be circulated by professor towards the end of the semester)