ARTH 298 Special Topics in Genre Studies: Museological Modes

• Fridays, 11:45 am-14:15 pm
• Course delivery TBA
• Instructor: Dr. Rebecca Duclos

Museological Modes offers an introduction to key concepts, challenges, and practices that have characterized museum-centred critique and interventionist action in cultural spaces over the past fifty years. The course privileges independent research, immersive exercises, and case study analyses of various contemporary art projects and actions. Students will develop an understanding of various “modes” of institutional critique by looking at how artists use strategies such as parody, irony, mimicry, juxtaposition, reframing, disjunction, fabulation, and performative intervention to question how museums present and interpret culture with and for their publics. Course content will be explored through video tutorials, hands-on exercises, group discussion, and the sharing of final work to build up a compendium of collaboratively formed knowledge.