Module manager: Maki Fukuoka
Email: m.fukuoka@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2026/27
| ARTF5189M | Procuring Representation: Contemporary Art, East Asia, Gende |
This module is not approved as an Elective
Feminist approach to art has a long and rich history. This module takes seriously the potential in the constructive challenges this history offers. You are invited to explore specific art practice from East Asia, along with gendered sociopolitical context, in conversation with interventions from international and transnational feminist thinkings. In what way, is practicing art in Tokyo’s university akin to a feminist artist working at our school? What are the sociopolitical conditions that support women artists in China, and how can you engage with their work through a feminist lens? The module explores the issues of translatability, situatedness, and gendered desire and expectations through critical readings and select works in contemporary East Asian art. Cultural, historical, and linguistic knowledge of the region is not a pre-requisite. However, you are expected to be willing to make the module content relevant to your own academic interests. Please note this is an optional module and runs subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose this module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
The module emerges out of a set of concerns outlined in the module summary and is structured to encourage and deepen these inquires. The module mobilises inquiry-based learning and offers an experimental space in which you continuously test and reflect your own ways of approaches to contemporary art from East Asia. This module will not provide an abridged survey of contemporary art in East Asia, but rather, offers an opportunity to refine an alternative approach to situate the role of women artists and their work through and with a set of interdisciplinary and contemporary geopolitical and intellectual awareness.
On successful completion of the module you will be able to:
1. Interrogate seminal ideas of feminisms from East Asian art
2. Incorporate cultural and sociopolitical contexts of East Asia through interdisciplinary approach
3. Analyse select works and their significance in the context of feminist art discourse
4. Communicate effectively, including presentation and seminar discussion, using appropriate digital tools, language, and format
5. Apply research and bibliographic skills
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 2 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Lectures | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| Seminars | 17 | 1 | 17 |
| Practical | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Private study hours | 272 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 28 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300 | ||
You will keep an online learning journal in the first part of the semester, following which you will be asked to submit it for formative feedback. Each entry should combine analysis of assigned readings, session content that followed, and your reflection on refining your guiding question that brought you to the module, which we’ll discuss during the first 1-to-1 meeting.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Essay | Essay | 70 |
| Presentation | Presentation | 30 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Check the module area in Minerva for your reading list
Last updated: 30/04/2026
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