ARTH 392 Gender Issues in Art and Art History: Queer Methods in Canadian Art 1960s-Present

• Tuesdays, 11:45 am-14:15 pm
• Course delivery TBA
• Instructor: Alexandra Tigchelaar

In this course students will be introduced to methods, themes, and materials used by queer artists in Canada from the 1960s to the present day. 

Students will learn how queer artists have asserted their identities through creative interventions, and how they have they disrupted stigmatizing and criminalizing narratives using techniques like parody, camp, hauntings, stealth, imitation, legibility, and radical softness. Materials and methods such as ‘zines, social cartography, poster campaigns, performance/art, graphic novels, as well as more traditional visual art practices will be highlighted.