Aesthetics of Relation: Minoritarian Gestures in the Visual Realm

Focusing on recent scholarship, this course explores the use of aesthetics among minoritarian subjects to elaborate a politics of relation. Exploring origins in women of color, black radical, and queer of color scholarly traditions, alongside methodologies from cultural studies and visual culture studies, we will read diagnoses of and responses to power as well as imaginings of alternate social formations. In addition to recent scholarship, we will also consider recent exhibitions and artist talks.