A non-accredited History of Art course.

Course Description

This course will explore the challenges of global environmental sustainability in the current context of the climate crisis through the lens of installation art, performance art, participatory art, socially engaged art, site-specific works of art, and activist art. Artists address environmental issues in their artistic practices and support the transformation to sustainability. The course will consider artworks that invite audiences to touch, taste, smell, and hear, to experience through their senses the tangible effects of global warming.

Tutor: Xinrui Zhang BA MA

 

Term: Summer

Day: Wednesday

Start Date: 19 April 2023

Time: 7-9pm

No. of weeks: 8

Full fee: £79

Location: University of York Campus, Classroom-based