Gendered Geographies

Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students' practices. While each course
under this category may offer a particular theme
or subject matter, its primary organization and
outcomes will center around making. This category
will include, but not be limited to, modes of
production fundamental to photographic and
media-based practice, including film-based and
digital photography, video and moving image
production, sound production, performance and
book-making, and will sometimes include a focus
on the primary genres and categories of
production common to media and photography.

Perspective, position, locality and margin are
spatial terms that form the metaphoric language
that maps the ideology of gender difference.
Feminist art criticism has concerned itself with
identity politics, the construction of the self
and theories of the representation of the body.
Architectural criticism has analyzed the socially
determined and political uses of built
environments with less attention to gender
theory. A feminist geography could redefine
theories of place and explore the labyrinthine
spaces where class, race and gender intersect.

This class will read literature from gender
theory, feminist art criticism, architectural and
landscape theory. Related genres and disciplines
such as architectural photography, landscape
painting and architecture, land art, real estate
development, tourist souvenirs and visions of
utopia will be discussed. Interpreting place and
home through architectonic, electronic and
political boundaries, artists can imagine a
radical creative space, which will sustain the
subjective. Throughout the class we will return
to the question 'Who is seeing and what is being
seen?'