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This course explores ways performance practices can respond creatively and critically to Glasgow's colonial legacy, including monuments, artifacts and archives. The course will examine how embodied actions and interventions can act as a decolonial gesture to create and disseminate new forms of knowledge.

5 x 2-hour seminars

1 x 5-hour sites and archive visit

5 x 3- Practice-led Research and Performances

Available to all students fulfilling requirements for Honours entry into MA Theatre Studies, to students fulfilling the requirements for Honours entry into MA Creative Arts and Industries, and by arrangement to visiting students or students of other Honours programmes who qualify under the University's 25% regulation.

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The standard assessments for this course are:

■ Blog (5 x 500 words = 2500 words) - 50%

■ Performance (30-40 minutes) - 50%

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:

■ There is no alternative to the blog, but a flexible deadline can be offered as reasonable adjustment (students should follow the usual process for extensions).

■ Recorded performance/reduced audience or alternative space as alternative to performance/reasonable adjustment.

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.

This course aims to:

■ introduce students to contemporary decolonial theory and practices by Global Majority scholars and artists.

■ explore the role of the artist in decolonial contexts, by analysing performance works and the contexts in which they are created.

■ provide students with the opportunity to develop performances responding to colonial monuments, artifacts and archives and reflect on their own role in decolonial processes. 

■ develop students' performance skills by giving them the opportunity to create site specific performances, interventions and actions.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ critically engage with primary and secondary sources on artists and performance role in decolonial processes.

■ develop innovative performances, interventions and actions that engage with decolonial theory and practice. 

■ identify and analyse key events, people and movements that impacted the development of decolonial thought and artistic production. 

■ present this knowledge in blogs and a live performance appropriate to an honours level. 

■ articulate an awareness of their role in decolonial processes.