Our world is separate and distinct from the earth on which we reside. After loss and devastation, humans reshape their communities again and again. In this course, students will examine a host of texts and media ranging from poetry, theory, film, and visual arts to think about the end of the world and its bearing on artistic voice and contemporary discourse. The seminar will examine how artists deal with climate collapse, illness, warfare and genocide, gender and sexuality, politics and religion. The agenda the class will use as a focal point and political framework is one rooted in survival and its formal and theoretical economies. This seminar will operate as a laboratory, a place to gain practical survival skills, through making, writing, and critique. Fine Arts Seminars are intended to broaden and clarify students' perspective on contemporary art practice. Each semester these seminars shift in focus and subject matter. Seminars may concentrate on art from the perspectives of art history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and so forth, or may take the form of a discipline-based critique focusing on the history, theory, and practice of painting, sculpture, and photography, among others.

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