Seminar at Illinois At The Phillips: Art and Politics Since 1990
This seminar will examine how contemporary art engages society, culture, and politics. Special attention will be paid to how art since 1990 has negotiated globalization, at times finding resources within its development, at others, contesting its structures and effects. However, our study will not be limited to an investigation of globalization, we will also examine related topics such as gender, the privatization of the public sphere, labor, the environment, and war and terrorism. We will examine these issues through select cases of artistic practice that parse these issues and raise new options for forms of resistance, as well as for new modes of being and belonging in the world. Readings are selected to pose strong critical positions and to raise experimental theoretical possibilities, with which we will engage and problematize through discussions and written work. Readings will include work by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Gilles Deleuze, and Irit Rogoff. The course will emphasize, but not be limited to, an exploration of new media, photography and video, site specific installation, and the projected-image. Artists discussed will include Allan Sekula, Melanie Friend, Walid Raad, Francis Alys, Eyal Weitzman, Dara Birnbaum, Kim Soo Ja, Simon Starling.
4 undergraduate credits, 4 graduate credits, non-credit
Meets:
Jan 25 - Apr 19, 2010Mondays, 5-8pm
Carriage House Conference Room, The Phillips Collection
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