Strategies of Making [Subject to Change]
|Fluxes Movement | Happenings | Position and Perspective | Wage and Labor | Reaction and Resistance | Limits and Restraints | Art and Activism |
|Fluxes Movement | Happenings | Position and Perspective | Wage and Labor | Reaction and Resistance | Limits and Restraints | Art and Activism |
Fluxes Movement - 1960's
Project: The Body as Material
Guest Speaker - Rhema Barber - Art Historian/ Curator of Figure One
Screen: Yoko Ono: Eye Blink, Joseph Beuys: Fltz TV, George Brecht: Car Concert
Artist: Bruce Neuman| Paul McCarthy| Dick Higgins
Readings:
Happenings - In relation to Allan Kaprow.
Project: One Minute Composition based on time and chance
Listen to: John Cage: Music of Changes 1 -2
Guest Speaker: Ann Wu
Artist: Allan Kaprow | Claes Oldenburg | John Cage
Readings:
Position and Perspective : An analysis of landscape and social spheres.
Project: 3 - 5 minute Documentary Trailer
Guest Speaker - Brett Hanover
Artist: Isaac Julien | Chris Ofili | Maya Lin
Readings:
Wage and Labor
Project: Sounds of invisible labor
Field Trip - Sola Gratia Farm
Screen: Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art Works 1969- 1980
Artist: Mierle Laderman Ukeles |Tehching Hseih |
Readings:
Reaction and Resistance : environments and materials
Project: Semiotics of an experience
Guest Speaker: Angelo Ray Martinez
Artist: Santiago Sierra | Minerva Cuevas | Daniel Buren
Readings:
Limits and Restraints : Examine norms, constraints, and systems artist create work within in and outside of.
Project: Establish Restraints for another to create a work of art.
Guest Speaker - Melonie Mulkey
Screen: Matthew Barney - Drawing Restraints
Artist: Matthew Barney | Sol Lewitt | Erwinn Wurm
Readings:
Art and Activism
Project: Micro Engagement: Creating moments for reflection
Guest Speaker: Meadow Jones
Screen: Questions @ Answers with Suzanne Lacy
Artist: Theaster Gates | Suzanne Lacy| Katerina Seda
Readings:
Final Proposal - This will be described in detail at a later date.
+Weeks 14-15
Additional Readings:
+Bruno Latour: From Realpolitick to Dingpolitik or How to Make Things Public
Project: The Body as Material
Guest Speaker - Rhema Barber - Art Historian/ Curator of Figure One
Screen: Yoko Ono: Eye Blink, Joseph Beuys: Fltz TV, George Brecht: Car Concert
Artist: Bruce Neuman| Paul McCarthy| Dick Higgins
Readings:
- Roland Barthes(1968) - The Death of the Author
- Miwon Kwon(2003) - Exchange rate: On obligation and reciprocity in some art of the 1960’s and after
- Janet Kraynak - Performance
Happenings - In relation to Allan Kaprow.
Project: One Minute Composition based on time and chance
Listen to: John Cage: Music of Changes 1 -2
Guest Speaker: Ann Wu
Artist: Allan Kaprow | Claes Oldenburg | John Cage
Readings:
- Susan N. Plant (2000),Public Politics and Domestic Rituals: Contemporary Art by Women in Turkey
- Jori Finkel(2008), Happenings are Happening Again
- Alex Ross (2010), Searching for Silence
- Moma Collection, Please come to the show:
Position and Perspective : An analysis of landscape and social spheres.
Project: 3 - 5 minute Documentary Trailer
Guest Speaker - Brett Hanover
Artist: Isaac Julien | Chris Ofili | Maya Lin
Readings:
- Vicente M Diaz (2012) - Voyaging Ancient Futures
- Alfred Gell(1998)- Art and Agency
- Gabriella Giannachi; Nick Kaye; and Michael Shanks (2012) - Introduction Archaeologies of presence
Wage and Labor
Project: Sounds of invisible labor
Field Trip - Sola Gratia Farm
Screen: Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art Works 1969- 1980
Artist: Mierle Laderman Ukeles |Tehching Hseih |
Readings:
- Julia Bryan-Wilson(2003) - Wage Labor
- Helen Molesworth (2003) - The artist as manager and worker: The artist creates and completes a task
- Walead Beshty - Neo - Avantgarde and service industry
- Tom Finkelpearl - Interview: Mierle Laderman Ukeles on Maintenance and Sanitation Art
Reaction and Resistance : environments and materials
Project: Semiotics of an experience
Guest Speaker: Angelo Ray Martinez
Artist: Santiago Sierra | Minerva Cuevas | Daniel Buren
Readings:
- Ruben Gallo (2004) - Urbanism
- Daniel Buren (1969) - From Painting to Architecture
- TBA
Limits and Restraints : Examine norms, constraints, and systems artist create work within in and outside of.
Project: Establish Restraints for another to create a work of art.
Guest Speaker - Melonie Mulkey
Screen: Matthew Barney - Drawing Restraints
Artist: Matthew Barney | Sol Lewitt | Erwinn Wurm
Readings:
- Gillian Rose (2012) - Psychoanalysis: Visual Culture, Visual Pleasure, Visual Disruption
- Stephanie Cash ( 2003) - Stand -Up Artist
Art and Activism
Project: Micro Engagement: Creating moments for reflection
Guest Speaker: Meadow Jones
Screen: Questions @ Answers with Suzanne Lacy
Artist: Theaster Gates | Suzanne Lacy| Katerina Seda
Readings:
- Suzanne Lacy - Mapping the Terrain(1994), New Genre Public Art
- Mark Godfrey (2012)- Designs for Life, Theaster Gates
- Luis Camnitzer (2007), The Tupamaros
- Yates McKee(2011), The Arts of Occupation
- Michael Taussig (2011), I'm so Angry I Made a Sign
Final Proposal - This will be described in detail at a later date.
+Weeks 14-15
Additional Readings:
+Bruno Latour: From Realpolitick to Dingpolitik or How to Make Things Public