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Veranstaltungen von Dr. Justin Skye Malachowski

Lehrveranstaltungen

Race, Sexuality and the Art World (Projektseminar)

Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 13:50 - 16:05 | 02.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 14.203 Seminarraum

Inhalt: How does the art world, media, the visual and other technologies of exhibition overlap with social inequalities, differentiation, erotic desire, and histories of exploitation? In what ways have arts and race, gender, and class been co-productive? How is art implicated in the relation between desire, exploitation, and social difference? Addressing these and similar questions, this course will explore the historical and contemporary role of the arts in relation to social division, categorization, and inequalities. On one hand, artistic production is inseparable from capitalist and colonial projects, in which some would argue (Mitchell 1989) are rooted within the deployment of visual categorization as a mechanism for power and hegemony. The Art world has long been a site for exhibiting and constituting difference, from the world fairs of the Austro-Hungarian and French empires, which categorized people, places, and their civilizational status, to the media machine of the Hollywood industry, which has indoctrinated a contemporary generation with views and values on specific people, places, and sexuality. On the other hand, art has long been employed as a tool and mechanism towards social change and the evaluation and critique of deeply embedded lines of inequality distributed through categories such as race, class, and gender. Artists, curators, and similar practitioners have sought to correct past harms and conventions through participatory and reflexive practices, which, while informed by earnest concerns, are not without risks. Towards an understanding of these issues, this class will consider seminal theories on race, gender, sexuality, and class, literature on contemporary art practice, media studies, anthropology, sexuality studies, and art history.