Framing Fatigue: Labor, Performance, and the Moving Image
Eugene Lang College Lib Arts: The Arts
CRN: 17367
Credits: 4
This course explores how the moving image, performance, and photography relate to exhaustion, labor, and the body. Students study how photography advanced principles of scientific management and precise measurements of fatigue. We also consider how the moving image has served as a dynamic lens, documenting, shaping, and reflecting the historical evolution of the body's role and representation within various labor contexts. We ask how chronophotography contributed to a science of work, and we analyze the ways in which the science of work, exhaustion, and the body participate in the production of modern hierarchies of racial and sexual difference. By examining the intersection of art, science, and technology, we focus on how bodies performing for the camera have contributed to the development of a scientific understanding—and management—of fatigue as exhaustion and of the human body as a source of labor power.
College: Eugene Lang College Lib Arts (LC)
Department: The Arts (ART)
Campus: New York City (GV)
Course Format: Seminar (R)
Modality: In-Person
Max Enrollment: 18
Add/Drop Deadline: September 9, 2024 (Monday)
Online Withdrawal Deadline: November 17, 2024 (Sunday)
Seats Available: Yes
* Seats available but reserved for a specific population.
Status: Closed*
* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 7:28am EDT 10/7/2024