Course Info: CSI-0296
| Course | CSI-0296 Border Culture |
| Long Title | Border Culture: Globalization and Contemporary Art |
| Term | 2017F |
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Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 105 on TH from 7:00-10:00 |
| Faculty | Lorne Falk |
| Capacity | 25 |
| Available | 4 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | Students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. |
| Description | This course looked at globalization and contemporary art through the lens of "border culture," a term that refers to the deterritorialized experience of people when they move or are displaced from their context or place of origin. Their experience of belonging and understanding of identity are affected by borders within the realms of language, gender, ideology, race, and genres of cultural production as well as geopolitical locations. Border culture emerged in the 1980s in Tijuana/San Diego in a community of artists who had spent many years living outside their homelands or living between two cultures––an experience that, in 2017, might well represent the nature of contemporary life as well as art praxis. Readings included the voices of artists, critics, historians, theorists, anthropologists, and philosophers. |