ARTH 546

Spring 2022 All Classes

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Seminar in Contemporary Art

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 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	30661	Seminar	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	W	316 Art and Design Building	Reitz, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Section Info: Topic: Carework. This seminar focuses on the aesthetics of care and carelessness in artistic, curatorial, academic, and institutional practices, especially in times of (unending) crisis. Our core aim will be to conceptualize the poetics and politics of “carework,” in dialogue with the many thinkers and makers whose contributions on this score will be our central objects of study. Who cares and how, exactly? What can and can’t care do? And why should we care about care, when it's so often transactionalized in corporate culture, whether in hospitals or universities? Our assigned readings and viewings will draw from a range of disciplines and movements, from art history, critical trans studies, and museum studies to disability justice, mutual aid, and prison abolition. Throughout the semester, we will ground our conversations in some of the most trenchant critiques on the subject of caretaking by Indigenous and Black writers, scholars, artists, and image-makers. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.