Course

Art and the Body: Identities and Orientations - SAHT2642

Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design

School: School of Art & Design

Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)

Campus: Paddington

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

View course information for previous years.

Description

This course concentrates on contemporary art and gender, sexuality and the body. Students will be introduced to a variety of key issues that contemporary practitioners address in work that explicitly engages with the body and its political meanings. The course
will examine historical precedents for this diverse work: debates, controversies, resistances and social/political movements. The question of how art has influenced and responded to these broader movements for social change will be explored, with a particular emphasis on gender studies, transnational feminisms, queer theory, critical race theory, critical disability studies and
postcolonialism. Ideas about how the body has been theorised, represented, ignored or fetishised will be considered in the context of contemporary art. Difference – here understood as a critical aspect of political identities and orientations – will be investigated
through art that addresses the body.
The Red Centre promenade

Study Levels

UNSW Quick Links