60-365 Critical Studies: Queer Power in Art Theory

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Queer power is a form of antiknowledge that demystifies phallogocentrism and neuters heteronormativity. This class examines how queer theories empower and can originate in art making and its history. Over the course of the semester, students discuss recent publications in the field such as Rogers Brubakers trans Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities 2016 and Paul B. Preciados Testo Junkie Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Parmacopornographic Era 2013. Students also investigate recent exhibitions exemplifying oppositional epistemology such as Trigger Gender as a Tool and a Weapon The New Museum, 201718 and HideSeek Difference and Desire in American Portraiture National Portrait Gallery, 2011. Interweaving the canons of queer thoughts with newer voices such as Lee Edelman, Tim Dean, and Maggie Nelson, this class contextualizes Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Tschabalala Self, Wu Tsang, and other artists who embody queer power today.

Prerequisites: none listed

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