This seminar explores current topics in contemporary art related to modes of production, distribution, and reception. Three areas of study—the archive, the curatorial, and the contemporary—serve as frameworks for addressing a range of issues from post-colonialism, nationalism, and environmental activism to artistic research, capitalism, and globalization. Through selected writings by theorists and curators combined with close studies of artworks and exhibitions, students gain an understanding and vocabulary to help situate their practice within current debates in contemporary art while imagining new forms of participation in the field. Class discussions of the assigned readings and student presentations about key figures and exhibitions comprise the requirements for this graduate-level seminar. The course is delivered fully and synchronously online.

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