Art both reflects and shapes political realities, giving form to human wants and needs, spurring popular movements, and determining social perceptions. This course will explore how film, interactive media, public art, and performance confront the major challenges of our time, from the rise of authoritarianism to forced migrations to anxieties over climate change, acceleration, and financial booms and busts. Drawing on important theoretical writings, we will study interventions by artists such as Tania Bruguera, Harun Farocki, Zhang Huan, Petr Pavlensky, and Oraib Toukan, as well as collectives like Forensic Architecture, ryangrupa, and MTL. Of special interest are post-national formations, often conceived by refugees and other groups expelled from existing political spaces.

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