ARTH 225(F) Nomads: Artists and Travelers in the Era of Globalization

What are the effects of globalization on contemporary art? How have artists representated these effects in their work? How have they navigated the increasingly international character of exhibitions and conditions of art-making? This course will examine the emergence of a global exhibition circuit in recent years; the escalation of artistic scale in response to the spatial demands of global "destination" museums; artists' explorations of economic inequities between first and third world nations; and the representation of the figure of the artist-traveler and a "nomadic" subjectivity in contemporary practice. The course will focus on such artists as Hans Haacke, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Mark Lombardi, Renée Green, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Christian Philipp Müller, John Di Stefano, Andrea Fraser, Gregg Bordowitz, Yinka Shonibare, Ursula Biemann, The Yes Men, and the Web-based Critical Art Ensemble.
Format: lecture/discussion. Requirements: one short paper (5 pgs) and final research paper (10-12 pages).
No prerequisites. Enrollment limit 25 (expected: 20). Preference given to Art majors.

Hour: MEYER