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FaVU-AIS-LAcad. year: 2026/2027
The course will examine several perspectives relevant to contemporary art. We will look at feminist and queer issues of representation and explore some ideas and essential thinkers whose work is influential in posing questions about the environmental crisis through visual art.
The course will look into the texts below through a detailed analysis and discussions; the selected texts, ranging from the disciplines of contemporary ecocriticism, antropology, cultural or visual studies.
The course will aim at active participation of students. Two classes will be devoted to issues which they will vote about, and the assigned texts will be read and presented to the class by small teams. Two more classes will be devoted to workshops or lectures with invited guests.
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Entry knowledge
Students have to have excellent communicative skills in English.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
CStudents will be assesed from discussing and writing short, in-class response papers about the assigned texts. Not having read those texts will count as an absence. The answered quiz questions regarding each text for homework have to be uploaded to the shared drive a day before the class. Before the last class in the semester, students will have to have fulfilled at least 60% of the assignments in order to be able to finish the remaining assignments by the end of the exam period. Students will be assessed from the regular, continuous work during the semester. Attendance is mandatory, students are allowed to miss two classes per semester.
Aims
The course should encourgare students to critically reflect the issues dealt with in the syllabus by way of studying the assigned texts, discussing them in class and reflecting them in essays. Academic reflection of selected problems of contemporary art, a detailed knowledge of artworks and viewpoints of selected contemporary artists.
Study aids
WEIZMAN, Eyal. The Least of All Possible Evils. Verso Books, 2017. ISBN 6059608264.
MIRZOEFF, Nicholas. The right to look: a counterhistory of visuality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c2011. ISBN 978-0-8223-4895-5.
GIELEN, Pascal a SHEHAB, Bahia. In the Absence of Bombs. Art, War, and Silence. Valiz, 2026. ISBN 978-94-93246-59-1.
VAN ALPEN, Erns. Trauma and Affect in Visual Culture. Valiz, 2026. ISBN 978-94-93246-56-0 .
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