YouTube Performance Assignment - Due in class Tuesday 9/24

Here is the elusive YouTube performance assignment that I've been asked about!

• YouTube Performance
• Please find a video on YouTube or Vimeo that illustrates a performance within a cultural/political/religious identity with which you identify
• Prepare a presentation in which you set up a contextual introduction for us, and then analyze the performance while you play us the video
• You may play the whole thing and then analyze is or (and this is riskier but perhaps more rewarding) teach us something about the video WHILE it is playing. You may pause the video to point something out, or talk over the video, or perhaps lower the volume.
• Please analyze the following elements of performance:
• Who the performer is
• Who the producer of the content is
• Who the audience is
• What the setting is
• What about this performance is subject to change (i.e. what makes this iteration of the performance unique? What are the varying factors that make it nonrepeatable?)
• What is the relationship between the producer and the performer? The performer and the audience?
• Is there anything that constitutes media here? (I am open to wildly creative interpretations of the term “media”)
• 3-5 minutes in length please (entire performance, not just the video clip)