Spring 2017 - FPA 389 E100
Selected Topics in the Fine and Performing Arts II (3)
Class Number: 9119
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 4 – Apr 7, 2017: Mon, 5:30–8:20 p.m.
GOLDCORP
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Instructor:
Amarjot Johal
amarjotj@sfu.ca
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Prerequisites:
30 units of FPA courses. May be of particular interest to students in other departments.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
A specific topic in fine and performing arts which is not otherwise covered in depth in regular courses and which is not appropriately placed within a single arts discipline. The work will be practical, theoretical, or a combination of the two, depending on the particular topic in a given term.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course looks at the relationships between art, politics and social change. The course will explore interdisciplinary art projects and interventions, theoretical writings, case studies and on-the-ground grassroots activist projects. Additionally, it will include dialogues with guest speakers that are working in these fields. Particular attention will be paid to new questions that are arising in social justice and community engagement work and how they relate to interdisciplinary artistic processes from the artist, community and institutional perspectives.
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
State of Exception
By Agamben, Giorgio
ISBN-13: 9780226009254
ISBN-10: 0226009254
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pub Date: January 15, 2005
Binding: Paperback
Precarious Life : The Powers of Mourning and Violence
By Butler, Judith
ISBN-13: 9781844675449
ISBN-10: 1844675440
Publisher: Verso Books
Pub Date: August 17, 2006
Binding: Paperback
Seeing Power : Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Production
By Thompson, Nato
ISBN-13: 9781612190440
ISBN-10: 1612190448
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Pub Date: August 18, 2015
Binding: Paperback
Dancing on Our Turtle's Back : Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
By Simpson, Leanne
ISBN-13: 9781894037501
ISBN-10: 1894037502
Publisher: Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Pub Date: June 15, 2011
Binding: Paperback
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