ARTH 298 Special Topics in Genre Studies: Museological Modes - Critical Interventions through Objects and Architectures

• Mondays, 2:45pm-5:15pm
• EV-1-605
• Instructor: Dr. Rebecca Duclos

Museological Modes is an intensive introduction to key concepts, challenges, and practices that have characterized museological discourse and interventionist action in cultural institutions over the past fifty years. Although the course is structured around select curatorial and artistic projects nominally identified within the genre of “institutional critique,” the thrust is, in fact, to engage in interpretive re-readings of projects through historical, theoretical, and critical narratives which exist for the most part outside the field of Museum Studies. Of interest to subversive scholars, critical cultural workers, and intellectual interventionists, Museological Modes will incorporate case study analyses, but also live conversations with practitioners and hands-on workshops in interpretive programming and exhibition design.