EDU PERFORM ART - International Symposium
Pedagogy of Visual Performance
Department of Intermedia and Digital Media
Banská Bystrica (SK) 2023
The first international EDU PERFORM ART symposium brought together artists, lecturers, and students to exchange approaches to performance pedagogy across Central Europe—combining presentations, discussions, and hands-on workshop formats. Within the context of the APL, Timothy Nouzak has shared the first presentation and traveled with the staff and the students to the on-site exchange.
Keywords: performance pedagogy, visual performance, intermedia education, blended formats, embodied practice, international exchange, workshop-based learning
Department of Intermedia and Digital Media
Banská Bystrica (SK) 2023
The first international EDU PERFORM ART symposium brought together artists, lecturers, and students to exchange approaches to performance pedagogy across Central Europe—combining presentations, discussions, and hands-on workshop formats. Within the context of the APL, Timothy Nouzak has shared the first presentation and traveled with the staff and the students to the on-site exchange.
Keywords: performance pedagogy, visual performance, intermedia education, blended formats, embodied practice, international exchange, workshop-based learning
Framework: ERASMUS+ Research & Student Mobility
Host: Department of Intermedia and Digital Media (IDM), Faculty of Fine Arts, Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica
Blended format: online → on-site → public showcase
The symposium was structured as a blended learning and exchange format:
The program foregrounded non-hierarchical exchange between teaching and learning, and treated performance as an expanded pedagogical field—between embodied research, public address, and intermedial practice.
The symposium was structured as a blended learning and exchange format:
- Online conference (pre-symposium): papers, lectures, and course presentations by the international faculty.
- On-site intensive week in Banská Bystrica: workshops, discussions, and shared pedagogical experiments across different methods and contexts.
- Student project presentations (virtual/public): video-based outcomes presented online and as projection.
The program foregrounded non-hierarchical exchange between teaching and learning, and treated performance as an expanded pedagogical field—between embodied research, public address, and intermedial practice.
Student output/assignment (project component)
Participants developed an independent performative work, drawing freely on the skills and techniques acquired in the selected courses. The output was documented as a video performance (max. 10 minutes), delivered in advance for the planned presentation.
Participants developed an independent performative work, drawing freely on the skills and techniques acquired in the selected courses. The output was documented as a video performance (max. 10 minutes), delivered in advance for the planned presentation.
Participating schools (selection)
- University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria (APL)
- Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic (AVU)
- Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic (SU)
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic (UJEP)
- Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary (MOME)
- Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary (METU)
Project reference
Project: EDU PERFORM ART 2023 (Erasmus+ BIP)
Project ID: 2023-1-SK01-KA131-HED-000117770-2
Project: EDU PERFORM ART 2023 (Erasmus+ BIP)
Project ID: 2023-1-SK01-KA131-HED-000117770-2
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