PIMA 7030 /ARTD 7920 Collaborative Strategies: SCHEDULE

TOPIC: Course Introduction 

• Image Introduction- students will present one image of their work, briefly discussing their work, where they are from, any pertinent personal information
• read this for help talking about your work
• Project ONE Assigned, partners assigned
• Discuss how to present readings 

Screening:

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Artists Talk, Actor #10, On George Condo

a few collaborative groups

Reading: Tom Finkelpearl, "The Art of Social Cooperation An American Framework," What We Made .

• Tom Finkelpearl, INTRODUCTION. (fixed)

• Twyla Tharp, The Collaborative Habit, Part One,  Chapter ONE

No class this week. 

Please use the time to meet with your partner to discuss next week's presentation.

Watch My Dinner with Andre.

TOPIC: Situationism

CRITIQUE PROJECT 1 -
SERVICE (Collaboration with an Individual)

• Students present the readings below.

Screening: 
Cronin and Seltzer, Call it Sleep

• Students present the readings below. 
Reading:

• Greg Sholette, "The Situationists’ Total Critique, and Total Cure." The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art _DAYNA P.
• Guy Debord, Towards a Situationist International 1957

SNACK: SELENA

Topic: Reenactment as Intervention

CRITIQUE PROJECT 2
Make a Project for a Site

• Students present the readings below.

Reading:

• Arns, History Will Repeat Itself  CAM

• Gregory Sholette, "1990's, Repurposing Situationism as Tactical Media, " The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art (New Directions in Contemporary Art) (p. 86). Lund Humphries. 

Screening: 

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Strange Culture excerpt
Oliver Laric, "Versions"
Kevin Jerome Everson, "Ear, Nose, and Throat"

SNACK: DHAYNE and MEECH

TOPIC: Performing History

• Students present the readings below.

Reading:

Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"

An Interview with Pierre Huyghe
Author(s): George Baker and Pierre Huyghe
Julia Bryan Wilson, Sounding the Fury

IN CLASS: Harun Farocki, VIdeograms from the Revolution

Omer Fast, Speilberg's List
John Smith, Girl Chewing Gum
Mark Tribe, Port Huron Project
Art 21: Pierre Huyghe 

SNACK: MORGAN

TOPIC: Working Conditions

CRITIQUE of Project 3- Reenactment, Visualization, Pageant

Reading: 

Adrian Piper, Ideology, Confrontation and Political Self-Awareness. 
 

Hito Steyerl, “If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms“

  - SALLY

Screening: Jaysson Mussen, Brad Troemel

SNACK: CAM

Topic: Institutional Critique

CRITIQUE of Project 3- Reenactment, Visualization, Pageant

Reading:
Andrea Fraser, "From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique"  

Gregory Sholette, "Institutional Critique or Cultural Abolition?," The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art (New Directions in Contemporary Art) (p. 106). Lund Humphries. 

Jennifer Doyle, "Host Institution", In Rehearsal, Autumn Knight.  MORGAN

Screening: 
Andrea Fraser and Claudia Rankine, In Conversation

SNACK: DAYNA

Topic: Skillshare as Practice
Reading: 

Tom Finkelpearl, Education Art: Catedra Arte de Conducta (Inteview with Tania Bruguera) ARIEL
Adrian Piper, "Notes on Funk," Participation. LIANDRA

4PM: Meeting with Creative Writing MFA Students

Screening:

Adrian, Piper,  Notes on Funk

Miranda July, Harrell Fletcher, Learning to Love you More

SNACK: PAULA

Look at:

http://carolinewoolard.com/#systems 

http://learningtoloveyoumore.com

TOPIC:  Participation or Intervention?

Harrell Fletcher, Some Thoughts on Art and Education, 2007 VALERIA

Final Project Phase ONE presentations DUE

THEN

Field trip to ZEROSPACE

4:30 PM
337 BUTLER ST.
BROOKLYN, NY 

TOPIC: FROM ART PRACTICE TO CURATORIAL PRACTICE 

• Students present the readings below.

Reading:

• Gregory Sholette, Counting On Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice   SELENA

• Maura Reilly , What Is Curatorial Activism?

• Nyamekye : Hans Ulrich Obrist : Curating in the Twenty First Century.

Screening:
The Laundromat Project
No Longer Empty
Ghana Think Tank
Amanda Browder

SNACK: THEO

Exhibition or Exhibition Post-Mortem