Based in New York City, The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program is designed to facilitate the examination of both dominant and under-recognized epistemological frameworks that inform the system of art, including its production, consumption, distribution, and exhibition.
The 2022-2023 seminars will examine themes around art and labor. Within this framework, we will focus on historical, political, and aesthetic perspectives related to conventional and non-conventional notions of art and labor practices. Particular attention will be paid to: the historical materialist method and critiques of the euro centrism there within; organized and spontaneous labor movements and their theorists; theories of class constitution and formation; intersections between class and identity formations; and the vexed relationship between postmodern theory and materialist analysis.
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