ARTH 379 - Postcolonial Theory In Art History

• T - 15:00-17:30
• EV-1.605
• INSTRUCTOR: DR. ALICE MING WAI JIM

Suitcases, maps, passports, tours, journals, transit lounges, security screening technologies, planes, trains and automobiles: what do all these have in common? They are among the many facets of human movement explored by contemporary artists in the global age of migration and mobility. This course explores the aesthetic potential of contemporary art that engages with the experiences, policies, travel infrastructures, migration museums, and pleasure, identity and freedom industries associated with an era of unprecedented  mass migration. Drawing from interdisciplinary postcolonial research, we will examine  the production, exposure and circulation of art in response to current conditions of transience, in relation to issues such as borders, home, displacement, asylum, tourism, travelling aesthetics, migrant subjectivities, postcolonial cosmopolitanism, nomadism, belonging, transnationalism, global citizenship, and new geographies of contemporary art.