How do historical, cultural and social factors affect our subjectivity when consuming artworks made by artists of colour in institutional spaces? What are the implications if our understanding of the artworks is rooted in a westernised context?

This course aims to shift the paradigms in which we understand artworks by artists of colour by drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to develop a new framework and artistic vocabulary focused on scholarly contributions to the field.

Throughout the sessions, we will explore the many ways in which contemporary artists, theorists and cultural workers are (re-imagining) how ‘blackness’ is perceived by upsetting traditional modes of corporal spectatorship in transformative and radical ways. 

Tutor: Ese Onojeruo