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.



ART of the MOOC: Activism and Social Movements
This course is part of Art of the MOOC: Art, Culture, and Society Specialization


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There are 7 modules in this course
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.
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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鈥檚 contribution will respond to a particular social movement of their choosing.
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10 videos1 assignment
The prompt, lecture and guest presentations will provide the foundation and inspiration for students鈥 own experiments. These student experiments were originally peer reviewed projects in the ART of the MOOC series, but have now been made entirely optional and self-reviewed. If you want to do them, we recommend you chose one of the two options (one is more social, the other more individual) and complete the optional quiz after you are done. Your project submissions and the quiz are not graded, so they will not impact your performance in the course.
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2 readings2 assignments
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鈥攁ctivities that are fundamentally social but traditionally seen to contradict serious artistic production.
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9 videos1 assignment
The prompt, lecture and guest presentations will provide the foundation and inspiration for students鈥 own experiments. These student experiments were originally peer reviewed projects in the ART of the MOOC series, but have now been made entirely optional and self-reviewed. If you want to do them, we recommend you chose one of the two options (one is more social, the other more individual) and complete the optional quiz after you are done. Your project submissions and the quiz are not graded, so they will not impact your performance in the course.
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2 readings2 assignments
This lesson will use the notion of 鈥榚mbodied knowledges鈥 to link activism and socially engaged art to performance art, gesture, and 鈥榳riting without words.鈥 Recognizing that knowledge is inseparable from one鈥檚 lived, physical, and social experience, 鈥榚mbodied knowledges鈥 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鈥檚 practical components will ask students to actively think 鈥榝rom鈥 their particular site of enunciation and 鈥榯hrough鈥 their particular embodied knowledge. Guest presenters: Mujeres Creando, Regina Jos茅 Galindo, Mariam Ghani, Sharon Hayes, Chemi Rosado-Seijo
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7 videos1 assignment
The prompt, lecture and guest presentations will provide a foundation and inspiration for students鈥 own experiments.The prompt, lecture and guest presentations will provide the foundation and inspiration for students鈥 own experiments. These student experiments were originally peer reviewed projects in the ART of the MOOC series, but have now been made entirely optional and self-reviewed. If you want to do them, we recommend you chose one of the two options (one is more social, the other more individual) and complete the optional quiz after you are done. Your project submissions and the quiz are not graded, so they will not impact your performance in the course.
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2 readings2 assignments
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