How art engages with politics, identity and institutions, including the gallery, the market and the politics of display.
These are the statements the Visual Arts syllabus makes about Art, Society and Contemporary Issues. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
How contemporary practice engages with politics, identity, technology and the environment.
The diversity of Indigenous practice, its relationship to Country and law, and the problem of reading it only through a Western frame.
The body as subject, material and site, and the ethical questions that follow.
Works that use language as a visual and conceptual element, and what the combination can say that neither can alone.
How portraiture constructs rather than records a self, including the conventions it inherits and subverts.
Landscape as a cultural construction, and contemporary practice that treats the environment as a political subject.
Feminist critique of the canon, the representation of women, and the conditions of making that the critique exposed.
How institutions and markets shape which art is seen and valued, including curation as an interpretive act.
HSC Visual Arts - Written Paper Shape is 50 marks in 90 minutes. Questions on Art, Society and Contemporary Issues are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Visual Arts uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Art, Society and Contemporary Issues is module 4 of 4 in Visual Arts. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Visual Arts dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.