CAMPAIGN AGAINST ADDICTIONS

This campaign was done in Barcelona during the mobility to Gironella

with the international groups.

Students had to prepare a performance in groups, they prepared

them in class, considering the following information:

Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine

art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either

scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or

otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The

performance can be live or via media; the performer can be present or

absent. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time,

space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a

relationship between performer and audience. Performance art can

happen anywhere, in any type of venue or setting and for any length of

time. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in

a particular time constitute the work.

Performance art is a term usually reserved to refer to a conceptual art

which conveys a content-based meaning in a more drama-related

sense, rather than being simple performance for its own sake for

entertainment purposes. It largely refers to a performance presented to

an audience, but which does not seek to present a conventional

theatrical play or a formal linear narrative, or which alternately does not

seek to depict a set of fictitious characters in formal scripted

interactions. It therefore can include action or spoken word as a

communication between the artist and audience, or even ignore

expectations of an audience, rather than following a script written

beforehand.

Performance artists often challenge the audience to think in new and

unconventional ways, break conventions of traditional arts, and break

down conventional ideas about "what art is”

So, each group prepared a performance with the aim to show

the audience (street pedestrians in our case) the importance of

being away from addictions.

The school had prepared T-shirts for all of the students, so they

were wearing them, with the aim of giving this strong message

in a more visual way. Moreover, the T-shirt had the Erasmus

logo so people could clearly know about our project.