Socially Engaged Art - SAHT3217

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

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Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

Description

This course will trace the emergence of Socially Engaged Art as a post-Relational response to the urgencies of contemporary life. The course will have an emphasis on contemporary arts practice in the 2000s and the ways in which artists have responded to important local and global issues. Topics explored will include utopia; art and everyday life; globalization; realism and the politics of representation; racism, necropolitics, decolonality; environmental politics; survivalism and the avant-garde. The course will include lectures, tutorials, independent research and group discussions.