MATERIAL DISOBEDIENCE: QUEERING THE OBJECT

Course Description

This course has a $60 fee that will be charged the day after the Add Deadline for this quarter. Once the fee is assessed, it will not be refunded for any reason.

This course aims to explore sculpture through queering the object, disobeying the existing relationships between form and material. Through reading and discussing works like “Queer Relations” by David J. Getsy and Susan Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp,’” students will investigate how the act of disobedience can serve as a powerful tool for subversion, resistance, and self-expression. Looking at work by Alex da Corte, Sasha Velour, Rafa Esparza, and ARCA, this class will examine how queer artists have utilized material disobedience, disrupting established hierarchies and challenging normative notions of beauty, functionality, identity, and desire. Through material research and exploration, students will investigate their relationship to ornamentation, camp, drag, kitsch. By the end of the course, students will have two sculptures that engage with the conversation of queering the object, pushing the boundaries of materiality.