Course Info: HACU-0271
| Course | HACU-0271 Queer & Poc Art Practices |
| Long Title | Pussy Grabs Back: Theorizing and Documenting Queer and People of Color Art Practices in the Contemporary Americas |
| Term | 2017F |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Adele Simmons HallüJerome Liebling Center 111ü115 on THüF from 5:30-7:30ü9:00-11:50 |
| Faculty | Alexis SalasüPatricia Montoya |
| Capacity | 23 |
| Available | 12 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Culture, Humanities, and Languages |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | Lab fee: $65. In this course, students are expected to spend approximately 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | This is a co-taught course that combines theory and practice. After establishing an initial theoretical framework, it divides into two tracks of project production: students choose between art historical scholarly activism or video-based work in which the interview is the source of inquiry and research method. We challenge patriarchal frameworks by researching queer, People of Color (POC), and feminist scholars, activists, and artists through virtual and in-person interviews. Through engagement with these thinkers, we examine discourses of woman power in both Latin, Central, and North America. In studying transnational, transgender, and transgenerational practices, we consider the tension between allies in the destabilized discourses of the "female" (a term itself that is put into question) body. Topics and theoretical frameworks include the menstrual taboo, sex work, raunch aesthetics, and femicidios. The readings inform discussion of performance art, conceptual practices, film, public actions, music videos, and fine art. Students choosing art historical scholarly production write about artists' practices. Students choosing video-based production generate podcasts and video-recorded interviews with artists. Both tracks research and make creative projects in dialogue with the artists studied. |