Queertiques

Queertiques is an interdisciplinary critique
course and seminar open to upper-level undergrad
and grad students within the School of Art, and
from other Schools with instructor permission.
Queertiques or Queer Critiques embraces bell hooks
and Tim Dean's terming of 'queer' as being about
the self that is at odds with everything around it
and that has to invent and create and find a place
to speak and to thrive and to live. Students will
read and discuss critical-theoretical texts that
center intersections of queerness with gender,
race, class, and ability; and examine how critical
queerness has historically manifested via varied
formalisms, materialities, methodologies, and
artistic praxis. We will critically engage with
the politics of visibility and institutional
critique, as we interrogate the coopting of
queerness and other marginalized identities within
institutions, the art market, and beyond. Students
are expected to maintain an active art practice,
and to complete and present their own projects and
exhibitions (including thesis exhibitions) for
peer-driven, intimate, and in-depth critical
discussion. This course offers students language,
theory, community, and an intro to a queer
artistic canon that will enable students to
interpret and articulate the queer content in
their own and each other's artwork.