Art and the Climate Crisis

Module code: DRA275

Credits: 15.0
Semester: SEM1

Contact: Dr Michael Shane Boyle

This module explores how art is responding to the climate crisis. The ruinous environmental transformation facing our planet requires everyone to act. This module surveys the varied ways artists in performance, visual art, film and literature are intervening, from raising awareness to disrupting business as usual. Students will be asked to evaluate both the potentials and limits of art's capacity to engage with this most pressing of topics. The module also foregrounds how the climate crisis overlaps with other urgent issues of our day, from environmental racism and economic inequality to the refugee crisis and settler colonialism.

Connected course(s): UDF DATA
Assessment: 60.0% Coursework, 40.0% Practical
Level: 5