Commerce

Art

Work

Tehching Hsieh

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Seth Siegelaub

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Kelly Mark

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Lee Lozano

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Career

Goran Trbuljak

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Carey Young

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Mierle Laderman Ukeles

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Ron Terada

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Selling Oneself

Maurizio Cattelan

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Garry Neill Kennedy

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Andrea Fraser

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Erwin Wurm

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Sales

Allen Ruppersberg

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Martha Rosler

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Yves Klein

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Edwar Kienholz

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Economy

Making a Living

Jens Haaning

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Ben Kinmont

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge

Identity

Martha Wilson

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Pierre Huyghe & Philippe Parreno

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Theodore Wan

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Mammalian Diving Reflex

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Discourse

N.E. Thing Co. Ltd.

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Lee Lozano

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Rainer Ganahl

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Clegg & Guttmann

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Disruptions

Teresa Margolles

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etoy.CORPORATION

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Janice Kerbel

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Chris Burden

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Goods

Stuff

Lin Yilin

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Rachel Whiteread

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Michael Landy

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Simon Starling

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Land

Edward Poitras

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Hans Haacke

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Maria Eichhorn

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Gordon Matta-Clark

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Bodies

Keith Obadike

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Paul Wong

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Toxic Titties

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Santiago Sierra

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Food

Life of a Craphead

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Wim Delvoye

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Mary Kelly

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Victor Grippo

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Luis Jacob: "Commerce by Artists"

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artists

Chris Marker

Gorgomancy

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Legacy of the Owl

Legacy of the Owl

Symposium, or Accepted Ideas

Florentine Camarata

Olympics, or Imaginary Greece

Immemory

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Quotes

James Benning

Twelve People

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Julie Ault, "Freedom Club"

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Two Cabins

Info

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Installation view (Berlin)

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2

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3

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4

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5

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6

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Thoreau, "Solitude"

Thoreau, "Solitude"

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Kaczynski, "Industrial Society and Its Future"

Kaczynski, "Industrial Society and Its Future"

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Dick Hebdige "After Benning, after Math: 12, 13 and counting...."

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events

"Mark Lombardi - Kunst und Konspiration"
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012, 18:00
Acud Berlin
Veteranenstr. 21
10119 Berlin

Michael Pisaro, Transparent City (2)
Mon, Apr. 16th, 21h
Naherholung Sternchen: Berolinastr 7
performed by Konzert Minimal

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

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INSTITUT FÜR RAUMEXPERIMENTE:
Wed, Apr 25th, 18:00
"GLASAUGE"

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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

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Movie at my place: May 22nd, 7PM - 11PM
Mehringdamm 60 "Kervezee"
Chris Marker, "Le fond de l'air est rouge"

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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 12 (last class): "Cinema in the Hands of the People: Chris Marker, the Medvedkin Group, and the Potential of Militant Film" (Trevor Stark)

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 10: Haben und Brauchen Manifesto, and Art in Defense of Democracy (Jonas Staal)

Week 9: David Graeber, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations"

Week 8: Maggie Nelson, "The Art of Cruelty", chapters 1 & 2

Week 7: Badiou's talk on his ''15 These on Contemporary Art'', and as an option, ''Only One World''

Week 6: Pisaro Interview, and his paper, "Eleven Theses on the State of New Music"

Week 5: Dan Graham Conversation Series

Week 4: Badiou, "May 68" & "This Crisis is the Spectacle" (note, I didn't include part 2)
"Commerce by Artists" by Luis Jacob

Week 3: Rancière, "Mallarmé", chapters 1 - 2

Week 2: Berger, "Why look at Animals?"
Ault, "Freedom Club" (re: Benning)

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"

L'Aveu

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readings

Cinema in the Hands of the People: Chris Marker, the Medvedkin Group, and the Potential of Militant Film (Trevor Stark)

David Foster Wallace

Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open

Haben und Brauchen

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Jonas Staal: Art in Defense of Democracy

Maggie Nelson

The Art of Cruelty: chapters 1 & 2

Michael Pisaro

Interview with MP

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"Eleven Theses on the State of New Music"

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Dan Graham: Conversation Series (with Hans Ulrich Obrist)

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Pavilion in Berlin

John Berger

why look at animals

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Boris Groys

going public

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Jean Baudrillard

the intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact

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Alain Badiou

“We Need a Popular Discipline”- Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of the Negative

Only One World

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Talk about ''Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art''

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The actual 15 theses (English and French)

May '68 Revisited, 40 Years On

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This Crisis Is the Spectacle: Where Is the Real?

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David Graeber

A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations

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Jacques Rancière

mallarmé

chapters 1 - 2

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chapter 3

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chapter 4

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Quentin Meillassoux

Iteration and repetition:
Ontology of the meaningless sign

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