Complex Social Change
Approaching this question, you may discuss the role of the humanities in general, or you may use one of the “key questions”
from the course to explore the meaning of “complex social change”
and/or “Complex Social Change”. Examples of applications of “key questions” are as follows, though you are welcome to pursue
your own interpretation and application of course concepts:
– Do the kinds of questions raised in humanities education lend themselves to the idea of “complex social change”? Does this
method of interrogation and exploration address issues raised in the exhibit “Complex Social Change”, and how or why do you
see this
represented (or lacking)?
– What ideologies are represented in the exhibit “Complex Social Change”, and how do these relate to, resist, critique, or
maintain broader, hegemonic ideologies in North American society?
– What kinds of discourse are established in the exhibit “Complex Social Change”? What sorts of signs or symbols are used,
and how are they employed by the artists? What critiques are made, for example, when domestic appliances are used to recall
tongue-incheek tales from the lives of lesbians? How are broomsticks relevant to the recent feminist battle-cry, “Free Pussy
Riot!”?
– What norms about gender and sexuality are resisted or critiqued in the exhibit “Complex Social Change”? How, for example,
does the “Feminist Art Gallery” (FAG) speak to contemporary, intersectional feminism, and how do the works in this gallery
use domesticity in creative or rebellious ways?