Uses the work of one seminal performance, film, video, and installation artist as a case study for considering the history of minimalism, video, and performance in the United States and Europe from the 1960s to the present and for developing ways of writing about time-based media in general. Only one of the following may be counted: Art History 338J, 359 (Topic: Performing Art History), 366P (Topic: Performing Art History), Women and Gender Studies 345 (Topic: Performing Art History). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.