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Image: Installation view "Some May Work as Symbols: Art Made in Brazil, 1950s–70s", at Raven Row, London.
https://ravenrow.org/exhibitions/some-may-work-as-symbols-art-made-in-brazil-1950s-70s

Introduction to Contemporary Arts and Politics 

Responsibles: Nkule Mabaso and Thiago de Paula Souza

 This is a survey course that introduces key political themes in relation to contemporary artistic practices, theories and institutions and its agents.It is informed by ongoing research and operates as a summer-long enquiry -  What are the relationships between contemporary art and politics?

Among the weekly themes are: I'll be your mirror:politics of difference, visibility and representation, The museum is burning—Archive Fever and the politics of display”; Computer LOVE - (technology, art, law, justice) and Territorial struggles and Ecologies (war, indigenous, climate, land struggles, settler colonialism, coloniality)

This scheme operates as capsules and as an organizational mode to present ideas, contexts and practices that sustain our teaching and despite this thematic focus all of the weeks are interrelated.

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