VES 109s - Dark Matter: Art, Politics, and Resistance in an Age of Enterprise Culture: Seminar

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

This seminar surveys structures of visibility and invisibility, marginalization and resistance revealing thirty years of alternative cooperative networks, tactical media activism, and participatory public art colliding with mainstream cultural economy like its missing mass. Students research groups such as The Yes Men, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Group Material, and Temporary Services while debating critical theories of Adorno, Brecht, de Certeau, Mouff, Ranciere, Enwezor, Kester, among other critics of engaged art.

Credits:

4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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