This course is for activists, artists, and thinkers who wish to better understand and participate in social change. We will focus on the prolific and exciting overlap between socially engaged art and cultural practices generated by recent social movements around the world. Rather than assess the political efficacy of activities like mourning, listening, organizing, dancing, or partying, the lectures examine such cultural activities next to, and within, contemporary art practice.
Included in the course are guest presentations by key artists, activists, and scholars, like: Rebecca Gomperts, Chido Govera, Gulf Labor, Hans Haacke, Sharon Hayes, Jolene Rickard, Gregory Sholette, Joshua Wong, and many more. Designed by artist and Duke professor, Pedro Lasch and co-taught by Creative Time artistic director, Nato Thompson, the course challenges learners to treat the MOOC itself as a social and artistic form. This happens mostly through the practical components, local project productions, global exchanges, and critical feedback.
While no prior art making or activist experience is required, projects also offer challenging options for advanced learners.
For other course offerings or language versions in this series, just search 'ART of the MOOC' inside the Coursera course catalogue.
ART of the MOOC: Activism and Social Movements
von
Duke University
Creative Time
Duke University
Lehrplan - Was Sie in diesem Kurs lernen werden
Woche
11 Stunde zum Abschließen
Introduction to Activism and Social Movements
This short module includes an overview of the course's structure, working process, global community, and overall guidelines. Make sure to read it right away and refer back to it whenever needed.
1 Video (Gesamt 2 min), 3 Lektüren
1 Video
3 Lektüren
Course Structure10m
Community Collaboration10m
Course Information and Resources10m
Woche
22 Stunden zum Abschließen
Activism and Social Movements: Lectures, Guest Presentations, and Quiz
This opening segment is dedicated to the prolific and exciting overlap between socially engaged art and cultural practices generated by recent social movements around the world. Environmentalism, AIDS activism, Queer movements, Zapatismo, immigrant rallies, alter-globalization, the World Social Forum, Occupy, the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, museum boycotts, and democratic uprisings in the Middle East will be seen in dialogue with cultural producers who participate in these movements or are inspired by them. Rather than assess the political efficacy of such cultural activities, we will examine their place within contemporary art practices. Based on Listening, Organizing, Dancing, or Partying, each student’s contribution will respond to a particular social movement of their choosing.
10 Videos (Gesamt 118 min), 1 Quiz
10 Videos
From Refusal and Boycott to Humor and Satire10m
Subverting Symbols and Power Structures12m
Prompt-Overview of Project and Peer Assessment2m
Beka Economopoulos16m
Gulf Labor16m
Rebecca Gomperts10m
Leonidas Martin14m
Naeem Mohaiemen11m
Joshua Wong11m
1 praktische Übung
Activism and Social Movements Quiz20m
Woche
34 Stunden zum Abschließen
Activism and Social Movements: Project and Peer Review
The prompt, lecture and guest presentations will provide a foundation and inspiration for students’ own experiments.
2 Quiz
Woche
42 Stunden zum Abschließen
Aesthetics, Art History, and Cultural Institutions - Lectures, Guest Presentations, and Quiz
Just as recent social movements have transformed contemporary art and culture, activists have relied on ideas developed in more specialized cultural circles, sometimes without knowing it. Starting with an exploration of the ways in which socially engaged public art has been included and excluded from particular narratives, theories, institutions, and events, we will use this lesson to follow social practices as they question conventional art and art history. As we do so, students will be invited to create projects that directly engage with Cultivating, Farming, Cooking, or Eating—activities that are fundamentally social but traditionally seen to contradict serious artistic production.
9 Videos (Gesamt 85 min), 1 Quiz
9 Videos
Cultural Institutions and and International Exhibitions6m
Prompt-Overview of Project and Peer Assessment4m
Chido Govera8m
Hans Haacke15m
Future Farmers8m
Shannon Jackson13m
Jolene Rickard12m
Abigail Satinsky7m
1 praktische Übung
Aesthetics, Art History and Cultural Institutions Quiz20m
Woche
54 Stunden zum Abschließen
Aesthetics, Art History, and Cultural Institutions: Project and Peer Review
The prompt, lecture and guest presentations will provide a foundation and inspiration for students’ own experiments.
2 Quiz
Woche
61 Stunde zum Abschließen
Embodied Knowledges - Lectures, Guest Presentations, and Quiz
This lesson will use the notion of ‘embodied knowledges’ to link activism and socially engaged art to performance art, gesture, and ‘writing without words.’ Recognizing that knowledge is inseparable from one’s lived, physical, and social experience, ‘embodied knowledges” challenge the Western paradigms that separate information from matter, reason from affect, mind from the body, the worker from her labor, the individual from the collective. This lesson’s practical components will ask students to actively think ‘from’ their particular site of enunciation and ‘through’ their particular embodied knowledge.
Guest presenters: Mujeres Creando, Regina José Galindo, Mariam Ghani, Sharon Hayes, Chemi Rosado-Seijo
7 Videos (Gesamt 64 min), 1 Quiz
7 Videos
Prompt-Overview of Project and Peer Assessment3m
Mujeres Creando2m
Regina José Galindo9m
Mariam Ghani17m
Sharon Hayes17m
Chemi Rosado-Seijo6m
1 praktische Übung
Embodied Knowledges Quiz20m
Woche
74 Stunden zum Abschließen
Embodied Knowledge: Project and Peer Reviews
The prompt, lecture and guest presentations will provide a foundation and inspiration for students’ own experiments.
2 Quiz
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Top-Bewertungen
This course was really helpful in understanding the significance of art in social activism, and the project was a lot of fun.
Exciting, different & eye-opening. Innovative assessment strategy (once it opens)!
Dozenten
Nato Thompson
Chief CuratorCreative Time
Pedro Lasch
Visual Artist and Associate Research ProfessorDuke Art, Art History & Visual Studies
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Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.
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