This class aims to survey and analyze selected pockets of international contemporary artistic practices, while attending to key theoretical texts that inform them. Topics discussed may include, but not be limited to: the post-medium condition, refusal and the “non-productive attitude,” appropriation, historical referentialism, networked art, and sincerity. Throughout the course, we will keep an eye on the relationship between current economic and political forms and contemporary art. This course by no means aims for comprehensiveness, and, in addition to the broad range of topics listed above, our semester plan will have some built-in flexibility to respond to where the group’s as-yet-undetermined research investigations and interests lead. This theory seminar will be reading and presentation intensive, and is meant to be intellectually challenging and rigorous. Oral presentations and short written response papers based on readings and image presentations of individual artists will be required. The course is open to students working in all forms and disciplines.

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