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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Site Specific Production and Presentation
  • Unit Code

    BPA2008
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Renee Esther NEWMAN

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 ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered51 x 3 hour practical classNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered9 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 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. 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, 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.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Site Specific Production and Presentation
  • Unit Code

    BPA2008
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Renee Esther NEWMAN

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 ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered51 x 3 hour practical classNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered9 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%
PerformancePreparation and Performance60%

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 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. 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, 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.

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