readings
Quentin Meillassoux
Iteration and repetition:
Ontology of the meaningless sign
Jacques Rancière
mallarmé
chapters 1 - 2
chapter 3
chapter 4
David Graeber
A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations
Alain Badiou
This Crisis Is the Spectacle: Where Is the Real?
May '68 Revisited, 40 Years On
Talk about ''Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art''
The actual 15 theses (English and French)
Only One World
“We Need a Popular Discipline”- Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of the Negative
Jean Baudrillard
the intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact
Boris Groys
going public
John Berger
why look at animals
Dan Graham: Conversation Series (with Hans Ulrich Obrist)
Pavilion in Berlin
Michael Pisaro
"Eleven Theses on the State of New Music"
Interview with MP
Maggie Nelson
The Art of Cruelty: chapters 1 & 2
Jonas Staal: Art in Defense of Democracy
Haben und Brauchen
David Foster Wallace
Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open
Cinema in the Hands of the People: Chris Marker, the Medvedkin Group, and the Potential of Militant Film (Trevor Stark)
L'Aveu
Here's what to read each week. Everyone should also post a weekly response to our blog-map. You can post links, event info or you can post content of your own, as long as there's enough (maybe a few things) to make a small in-class presentation out of it. How it branches out is up to you. It can be related to something recent, or it can connect us back to a previous topic. Maybe it's more of a free-floating idea.
Week 1: Baudrillard, Intelligence of Evil, Chapters 1 and 2, plus the chapter ''Contemporary Art: Art Contemporary with Itself.''
*Bonus: Groys, Going Public, "Comrades of Time"
**Alternative: Benning, start with "Twelve People"
Week 2: Berger, "Why look at Animals?"
Ault, "Freedom Club" (re: Benning)
Week 3: Rancière, "Mallarmé", chapters 1 - 2
Week 4: Badiou, "May 68" & "This Crisis is the Spectacle" (note, I didn't include part 2)
"Commerce by Artists" by Luis Jacob
Week 5: Dan Graham Conversation Series
Week 6: Pisaro Interview, and his paper, "Eleven Theses on the State of New Music"
Week 7: Badiou's talk on his ''15 These on Contemporary Art'', and as an option, ''Only One World''
Week 8: Maggie Nelson, "The Art of Cruelty", chapters 1 & 2
Week 9: David Graeber, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations"
Week 10: Haben und Brauchen Manifesto, and Art in Defense of Democracy (Jonas Staal)
Week 11: “We Need a Popular Discipline”- Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of the Negative (Badiou inteview), and (optionally) ''Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open'' (David Foster Wallace).
No class this week, July 2nd
Week 12 (last class): "Cinema in the Hands of the People: Chris Marker, the Medvedkin Group, and the Potential of Militant Film" (Trevor Stark)
events
Movie at my place: May 22nd, 7PM - 11PM
Mehringdamm 60 "Kervezee"
Chris Marker, "Le fond de l'air est rouge"
Ray Brassier:
Fri, May 4th, 19h
"That which is not"
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Workshop: Ray Brassier
Fri, May 4th, 11 - 14
“Representation and Picturing”
Altensteinstr. 2-4
INSTITUT FÜR RAUMEXPERIMENTE:
Wed, Apr 25th, 18:00
"GLASAUGE"
Quentin Meillassoux:
Thur, Apr. 19th, 19h
"Iteration and repetition:
Ontology of the meaningless sign"
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Friday, Apr. 20th, 11 - 14h
Workshop Series:
"Contemporary Materialism,
Realism, and Metaphysics"
Altensteinstr. 2-4
Michael Pisaro, Transparent City (2)
Mon, Apr. 16th, 21h
Naherholung Sternchen: Berolinastr 7
performed by Konzert Minimal
"Mark Lombardi - Kunst und Konspiration"
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012, 18:00
Acud Berlin
Veteranenstr. 21
10119 Berlin
artists
James Benning
Dick Hebdige "After Benning, after Math: 12, 13 and counting...."
Kaczynski, "Industrial Society and Its Future"
Thoreau, "Solitude"
Two Cabins
6
5
4
3
2
1
Info
Installation view (Berlin)
Julie Ault, "Freedom Club"
Twelve People
Chris Marker
Quotes
I think that any reasonably long memory (like every collection) is more structured than it seems at first sight. For example, in some images apparently taken at random, on postcards bought without thinking, we can recognize the first steps of a road on which we can draw a map of that particularly imaginary landscape. I am sure that if I study my documents systematically, I shall find, hidden in that disorder, a secret map, like the map of a the treasure in a tale of pirates.
Gorgomancy
Immemory
Legacy of the Owl
Olympics, or Imaginary Greece
Symposium, or Accepted Ideas
Florentine Camarata
Commerce
Luis Jacob: "Commerce by Artists"
Goods
Food
Victor Grippo
Mary Kelly
Wim Delvoye
Life of a Craphead
Bodies
Santiago Sierra
Toxic Titties
Paul Wong
Keith Obadike
Land
Gordon Matta-Clark
Maria Eichhorn
Hans Haacke
Edward Poitras
Stuff
Simon Starling
Michael Landy
Rachel Whiteread
Lin Yilin
Economy
Disruptions
Chris Burden
Janice Kerbel
etoy.CORPORATION
Teresa Margolles
Discourse
Clegg & Guttmann
Rainer Ganahl
N.E. Thing Co. Ltd.
Identity
Mammalian Diving Reflex
Theodore Wan
Pierre Huyghe & Philippe Parreno
Martha Wilson
Making a Living
Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Ben Kinmont
Jens Haaning
Art
Sales
Edwar Kienholz
Yves Klein
Martha Rosler
Allen Ruppersberg
Selling Oneself
Erwin Wurm
Andrea Fraser
Garry Neill Kennedy
Maurizio Cattelan
Career
Ron Terada
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Carey Young
Goran Trbuljak
Work
Lee Lozano
Kelly Mark
Seth Siegelaub
Tehching Hsieh
