This class will seek to interrogate the categories of art and activism by looking closely at the following efforts: Occupy Wall Street movement, Gulf Labor Coalition and Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.), the direct action wing of Gulf Labor Coalition, and the Direct Action Front for Palestine-NYC and Black Lives Matter. These case studies will sketch the possibility of a practice in which artist’s work does not simply add an artistic flair to this or that campaign, but rather theory and research, action and aesthetics, debriefing and analysis. Close readings of texts and visual materials form the core of the class supplemented with field trips, and special guests.