Performance courses at the Museum School help you develop your own voice in creating live, time-based art. Our focus is on solo work based in the visual, but we also encourage you to engage in an interdisciplinary practice incorporating other media.

Courses familiarize you with a range of approaches to developing original performance work, improve your technical production skills and introduce you to the theories and history of performance. We encourage you to experiment with different performance techniques and performance structures, and to examine the relationship between audience and artist.

Each year we host visits from internationally known performance artists who perform, give artist talks and teach intensive workshops.

Previous Course Offerings
Below are previous course offerings for the Performance area. Students must visit mySMFA to see current offerings and register.

Students in the undergraduate, graduate, Studio Diploma and Post-Baccalaureate certificate programs may also take continuing education courses for credit.

BEGINNING PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP / PER 1010
VIDEOPERFORMANCE: BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE / PER 2002 01
AFTERMATH: PERFORMANCE RESULTING IN INSTALLATION / PER 2004 01
RITUAL AS PERFORMANCE / PER 2010 01
CONTINUING PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP: FROM MACRO TO MICRO / PER 2012 01
DURATIONAL PERFORMANCES / PER 2013 01
RISK MANAGEMENT / PER 2018 01
SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE / PER 2020
IN THE SPIRIT OF DADA / PER 2025
THE SELF EXAMINATION ROOM / PER 2026 01
CONTINUING PERFORMANCE: THEME AND VARIATION / PER 2027 01
ACTIONS, COMMUNITIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS / PER 2028 01
OPEN STUDIOS / PER 4026 01
CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE THEORY AND THE PRACTICE OF ART / PER 6400 01
FEMINIST PERFORMANCE: NEGOTIATING RELATIONS OF POWER / PER 2003 01
INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ARTISTS WORKSHOP / PER 3008 01