This essay explores a period of education in the early 1970s when performance art briefly flourished under the auspices of a libertarian approach to art pedagogy. Charting developments at Leeds College of Art and Leeds Polytechnic from the 1950s to the 1970s, I analyse how the teaching of Basic Research mingled influences from the Bauhaus and elements of sixties counterculture to create an exceptional educational environment which, in the early 1970s, made possible student exploration of inter-media performance work. Drawing upon newly-obtained oral histories from former students the essay explores the work of large-scale student collective Soft Soap in order to delineate how performance practice was shaped by a pedagogy focused on the possibilities of open-ended cross-disciplinary creativity. Recollections and analysis of sometimes literal, oftentimes metaphorical, ‘walls’ show how performance-making developed as a practice of ignoring or traversing disciplinary barriers and exploiting the relative accessibility of an art college education for students from multiple economic backgrounds made possible by post-war UK state-funding of higher education.

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没有围墙：“北方包豪斯”的表演艺术和教学法

本文探讨了 1970 年代初期的教育时期，当时行为艺术在自由主义艺术教学方法的支持下短暂繁荣。绘制利兹艺术学院和利兹理工学院从 1950 年代到 1970 年代的发展图，我分析了基础研究的教学如何融合包豪斯的影响和六十年代的反主流文化元素，以创造一个特殊的教育环境，在 1970 年代初期，这使之成为可能学生对跨媒体表演工作的探索。这篇论文借鉴了以前学生新获得的口述历史，探讨了大型学生集体 Soft Soap 的工作，以描绘表演实践是如何被专注于开放式跨学科创造力可能性的教学法塑造的。有时文字的回忆和分析，