ARTH 546

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Seminar in Contemporary Art

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Credit: 4 hours.

Intensive study of selected problems or artists.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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ARTH 546 class schedule data for spring 2010
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
46728	Lecture-Discussion	AO	5:00PM -8:00PM	M	ARR Washington DC	Lang, K Weissman, T	Date Range: 01/25/10-04/19/10 Section Fee: Graduate - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $309.00 per Bill Hour, Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $277.00 per Bill Hour, and OCE Fees $45.00 per Bill Hour. Section Title: Art and Politics Since 1990 Section Info: Academic Outreach restrictions and assessments apply, see http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu. Class will not meet during the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Spring break. Restriction(s): Restricted to NDEG:Grad Nondegree-CE-UIUC or NDEG:Undergrad Nondeg-CE-UIUC.
50195	Conference	IS	2:00PM -4:50PM	W	319 Art and Design Building	Small, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Section Info: Topic: The Lives and Deaths of Works of Art. What happens when works of art cease to exist? How do ephemera and photographic records preserve, mediate, extend, and sometimes replace original objects or experiences? Can works of art subside from the category of art into mere document or vice versa? What kinds of ethical and philosophical problems are posed by the conservation of intentionally ephemeral works? This class takes up these questions through case studies focusing on works from the 1960s to the present that problematize the temporal boundaries of the work of art, whether through instruction-based propositions, performances and practice- oriented interventions, or transitory forms and materials. While the questions posed by such problems are often pragmatic in implication, our focus will be on the interpretive challenges posed by impermanent works of art and the traces and supplements they leave in their wake. Artists to be considered include Eva Hesse, Helio Oiticica, Sol LeWitt, Lygia Clark, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Francis Alys, Tino Sehgal.
49334	Lecture-Discussion	PC1	5:00PM -8:00PM	M	Location Pending	Lang, K Weissman, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Section Info: Topic: Contemporary 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. Enrollment is restricted to students accepted into the Illinois at the Phillips Collection program in Washington D.C. Course meets in Carriage House Conference Room, The Phillips Collection. Graduate Section. Undergraduates register for ARTH 491. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.