080022 SE Care Work in the Arts Since 1960 (2025W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from We 10.09.2025 10:00 to We 24.09.2025 10:00
- Deregistration possible until We 15.10.2025 10:00
Details
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 07.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 14.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 21.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 28.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 04.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 11.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 18.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 25.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 02.12. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 09.12. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- N Tuesday 16.12. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 13.01. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 20.01. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
- Tuesday 27.01. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Since the 1960s, artists around the world have been engaging with the subject of care work, encompassing activities such as cooking, cleaning and caring for others. This forms of labour are typically performed by women in capitalist working societies and are often unacknowledged as such. In their practice, the artists explore the underlying factors that result in this misrecognition and marginalisation, and the subsequent consequences for the daily lives of care workers. These consequences often directly impact the artists themselves and their work as artists. The seminar will address seminal works from the 1960s to the present day (including Hackney Flashers, Mako Idemitsu, Betye Saar, Tomaso Binga, Maria Pinińska-Bereś and Letícia Parente) and explore the question of how care work is made visible. A particular emphasis is placed on artistic strategies, with many artists developing new techniques to address the complexities of care work, be it variations of conceptual art, collective practices or overlaps between art, care and work. The objective of the seminar is to facilitate a comprehensive understanding of the global artistic debate and to engage in critical discussion regarding the classification of artistic works within the complex interplay of their respective artistic, social, political and economic contexts.
Assessment and permitted materials
- Active participation in discussions
- Presentation
- In-depth study in the form of a written term paper (approximately 40,000 characters of continuous text)
- By registering for this course, you agree that the automated plagiarism detection software Turnitin will check all written submissions you upload to Moodle.
- Presentation
- In-depth study in the form of a written term paper (approximately 40,000 characters of continuous text)
- By registering for this course, you agree that the automated plagiarism detection software Turnitin will check all written submissions you upload to Moodle.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Minimum requirements:
- Mandatory attendance. In case of absence due to illness or a family emergency, the lecturer must be informed in advance and a written proof must be provided.
- To successfully complete the course, all partial performances must be fulfilled.
- Term paper: To ensure good scientific practice, the course instructor may invite students to a grade-relevant discussion after submission of the paper, which must be positively completed.Assessment criteria:
- Active participation in discussions 15%
- Presentation 30%
- In-depth study in the form of a written term paper 55%Grading scale:
1 (very good) 100-90 points; 2 (good) 89-81 points; 3 (satisfactory) 80-71 points; 4 (sufficient) 70-61 points; 5 (insufficient) 60-0 points
- Mandatory attendance. In case of absence due to illness or a family emergency, the lecturer must be informed in advance and a written proof must be provided.
- To successfully complete the course, all partial performances must be fulfilled.
- Term paper: To ensure good scientific practice, the course instructor may invite students to a grade-relevant discussion after submission of the paper, which must be positively completed.Assessment criteria:
- Active participation in discussions 15%
- Presentation 30%
- In-depth study in the form of a written term paper 55%Grading scale:
1 (very good) 100-90 points; 2 (good) 89-81 points; 3 (satisfactory) 80-71 points; 4 (sufficient) 70-61 points; 5 (insufficient) 60-0 points
Examination topics
The examination material is the content of the course.
Reading list
Mariarosa Dalla Costa: Die Macht der Frauen und der Umsturz der Gesellschaft, Münster 2022; Silvia Federici: Aufstand aus der Küche. Reproduktionsarbeit im globalen Kapitalismus und die unvollendete feministische Revolution, kitchen politics Bd. 1, Münster 2012; Kochen, Putzen, Sorgen. Care-Arbeit in der Kunst seit 1960, hg. von Friederike Sigler und Linda Walther, Ausst.-Kat. Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop 2024; Helen Molesworth, „House Work and Art Work“, in: October 92, 2000, 71–97.
Association in the course directory
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