WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY CLASS AVAILABLE WINTER 2011 APH 5450, Selected Topics: Performance Art, Friday 12-5:45 pm, 12 students 4342 MAIN, Sue Carman-Vian This studio interdisciplinary non-traditional time-based course is open to all fine performing and communication arts disciplines. Students will be introduced to the basic elements of performance art, while examining the work of early through present day artists. Based on studio projects, visiting artists, discussions and critiques, students will produce personal and collaborative works in a variety of sites and settings, creating and performing their own projects in art venues and public places. “Timeline of evolution and history of performance art “Explore, create and perform various performance styles *Performances in public spaces that will support your artist's resume Sue Carman-Vian is a painter/performance artist directing her own performance group Catharctic Circle and exhibits her paintings, drawings, and performative costumes. Her performative films have won awards at such film festivals as the Ann Arbor Film Festival and have venued at the Detroit Institute of the Arts. She created a billboard gracing Michigan Avenue with a Michigan Council for the Arts grant.