Handbook

This course introduces you to global contemporary art; art that critically reflects, responds to and intervenes in the key forces shaping the present condition. Globalisation, border politics and decolonisation are the key socio-historical contexts for this course, as you examine art’s relationship with, and response to, economic, historical, ecological, and political contexts. To navigate the breadth and complexity of global contemporary art, you will engage with a series of key concepts such as ‘contemporaneity’ and ‘global art’, drawing from a range of contemporary writers and artists. By doing so, you will develop a vocabulary and tool kit, grounded in theory and practice, through which to critically engage with the intersections of art, culture, and the processes and politics of making and re-making worlds today.