AHT2025 The body in contemporary art
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
AHT2025 The body in contemporary art is a level 2, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. It isn't offered in 2020. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2022 entry.
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Requisites
Before AHT2025
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After AHT2025
No unit lists AHT2025 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prerequisite: 12 credit points at first year level in Art History and Theory, or Theory of Art and Design, or Visual Culture, or permission from Unit Coordinator
Prohibition: TAD2025, TAD3025
Equivalent units
The same content under another code. Only one of them counts.
Overview
This unit concentrates on the artist's body in art, including photography, performance, painting, sculpture, video and multi-media art. It will consider examples from the history of 20th century art but will focus primarily on art practice since 1960. The unit will deal with issues of identity, gender, sexuality and difference, drawing on performative theories of subjectivity. It will look closely at experimental art practices and how these practices have sought to close the gap between art and life; from the Happenings of the 1960s, through the body art of the 1960s and 70s, to relational aesthetics, and flash mob performance works in the 2000s. The unit will investigate live action in contrast to represented action, and will consider the live action and its remediation in video, digital art and film.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for AHT2025.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Demonstrate a detailed understanding of contemporary, experimental art and performance practice which centres on the body;
- 2
Demonstrate a working knowledge of the key debates and theoretical dialogues that have occupied artists and critics in relation to performativity in art;
- 3
Demonstrate skills in visual and critical analysis that can be applied to the investigation of the body and its performativity in art;
- 4
Demonstrate the ability to research and write from an informed position about the body in contemporary art.
Workload and teaching
12 hours per week including 3 contact hours and 9 hours of independent study, or equivalent.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Rex Butler
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Jessica Neath
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for AHT2025?
AHT2025 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is AHT2025 offered?
AHT2025 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.