Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0271 - Queer & Poc Art Practices

Fall
2017
1
4.00
Alexis Salas;Patricia Montoya
05:30PM-07:30PM TH;09:00AM-11:50AM F
Hampshire College
324185
Adele Simmons Hall 111;Jerome Liebling Center 115
ansHA@hampshire.edu;pmHA@hampshire.edu
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 will be put into question) body. Topics and theoretical frameworks include the menstrual taboo, sex work, raunch aesthetics, and femicidios. The readings will inform discussion of performance art, conceptual practices, film, public actions, music videos, and fine art. Students choosing art historical scholarly production will write about artists' practices. Students choosing video-based production will generate podcasts and video-recorded interviews with artists. Both tracks will research and make creative projects in dialogue with the artists studied.
Culture, Humanities, and Languages Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research Lab fee: $65. In this course, students are expected to spend approximately 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.