Out of a Corner in the Sixties
Week 1
- Tuesday
Introduction to the syllabus.
- Thursday
Demonstrative Actions, Furious Protest
or: Out of a Corner in the Sixties
Works by the following artists:
Bruce Conner, Daniel Buren
Required Reading:
Clement Greenberg "Modernist Painting" (1960)
Suggested Reading:
Guy Debord from :"The Situationist International" (1957)
Claes Oldenburg "I Am for an Art. . ." (1961)
Theodor Adorno from "Commitment" (1962)
Nam June Paik "Afterlude to the Exposition of Experimental Television" (1964)
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Questioning the Canon, Ascendance of Alternatives
Week 2
- Tuesday
Andy Warhol, Chris Burden
- Thursday
(QUIZ)
Works by the following artists:
Paul Thek, Art & Language, John Baldessari, Donald Judd
Required Readings:
Michel Foucault "What Is an Author?" (1969)
Suggested Readings:
Donald Judd "Specific Objects" (1965)
Sol Le Witt "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art" (1967), and
"Sentences on Conceptual Art" (1969)
Victor Burgin "Situational Aesthetics"(1969)
Music:
Short pieces by John Cage, LaMonte Young, Steve Reich
Audio:
Speech by John F Kennedy
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Art Informed by Feminist Theory
Week 3
- Tuesday
Works by the following artists:
Hans Haacke, Adrian Piper, Vito Acconci
Required Readings:
Laura Mulvey "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"(1973)
Roland Barthes "From Work to Text"(1971)
Lucy Lippard "Interview with Ursula Meyer" (1973) and "Postface" to Six Years
Valie Export "Women's Manifesto" (1972)
Artforum: from"The Artist and Politics: a Symposium"
(1970; Carl Andre, Joe Bae, Walter Darby Bannard, Rosemarie Castoro, Robert Smithson, Donald Judd)
Video:
sequence from interview with Vito Acconci
Music:
Sex Pistols, Lou Reed, Pete Seeger, Allan Ginsberg
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From Taboo to Revolution
Week 4
- Tuesday
Work by the following artists:
Gordon Matta Clark, Joseph Beuys, Paul McCarthy,
Required Reading:
"Gordon Matta Clark" Remembrance by Susan Rothenberg
Music:
Joseph Beuys singing for the Green Party
- Thursday:
(QUIZ)
Work by the following artists:
Carolee Schneeman, Walter de Maria, Anselm Kiefer, Marcel Broodthaers
Required Reading:
Carolee Schneeman "From the Notebooks" (1962-63) and "Woman in the Year 2000" (1975)
Suggested Readings:
Marcel Broodthaers "Ten Thousand Francs Reward" (1974)
Walter De Maria "Lightning Field Some Facts, Notes, Data, Information, Statistics and
Statements" (1980)
Music:
Afrika Bambaataa
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The Copy
Week 5
- Tuesday
Work by the following artists:
Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Wolfgang Tillmans
Required Reading:
Raymond Williams "Dominant, Residual, Emergent" (1977)
CD ROM:
Nan Goldin
- Thursday
Postmodern Architecture
Work by the following architects:
Rem Koolhaas
Daniel Libeskind (The Jewish Museum in Berlin)
Required Reading:
Rem Koolhaas, from:"Delirious New York" (1978)
Daniel Libeskind on the Jewish Museum
Suggested Reading:
"X,M,L, XL" by Rem Koolhaas
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Market Power, Reaganism, Thatcherism
Week 6
- Tuesday
Market Power, Art within the Museum, Reaganism , Thatcherism
Work by the following artists:
Leon Golub, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, Komar and Melamid
Required Reading:
Leon Golub "The Mercenaries: Interview With Matthew Baigell" (1989)
Suggested Readings:
John Baldessari "What Thinks Me Now" (1982)
Web Site:
Komar and Melamid, "The Most Wanted Paintings"
- Thursday
(QUIZZ)
Performative
Work by the following artists:
Marina Avramovic and Ulay, Keith Hearing, Adrian Piper
Required Reading:
Adrian Piper "Ideology, Confrontation and Political Self- Awareness" (1981)
Marina Avramovic and Ulay
Audio:
William Burroughs
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Critique, Resistance, Market
Week 7
- Tuesday
Mid-term paper is due.
Work by the following artists:
Barbara Kruger, Olaf Metzel, Jo Spence
Required Reading:
Richard Serra "Rigging" (1980)
Suggested Readings:
Maya Lin, Untitled Statement" (1983, 1993, 1995)
Hal Foster from "Subversive Signs"(1982)
Edward Said from "Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community" (1982)
Music:
Talking Heads, David Byrne, Madonna
- Thursday
Memory and Maintenance
Work by the following artists:
Martin Kippenberger, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Maya Lin
Required Reading:
Martha Rosler, "Video:Shedding the Utopian Moment" (1985-86)
Suggested Reading:
Krysztof Wodiczko "Memorial Projections" (1986)
Mierle Laderman Ukeles "Maintenance Art Manifesto"(1969) and "Sanitation Manifesto!" (1984)
Jenny Holzer "Language Games: Interview with Jeanne Siegel" (1985)
Video:
Sequences from Woman as Protagonist (Spero) and Women with a Past(Blumenthal)
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The Eighties
Week 8
- Tuesday
Work by the following artists:
Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh, Laurie Anderson
Required Reading:
Linda Montano, Tehching Hsieh "One Year Art/ Life Performance:
Interview with Alex and Allyson Grey"(1983-84)
Music:
"Oh Superman," Laurie Anderson
- Thursday
(QUIZZ)
The End of Painting?
Work by the following artists:
Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz
Required Reading:
Anselm Kiefer "Structures Are No longer Valid" (1985)
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Shopping, Repitition, the Grid
Week 9
- Tuesday
Work by the following artists:
Haim Steinbach, Agnes Martin, Ed Ruscha
Required Reading:
Frederic Jameson "The Deconstruction of Expression"
Suggested Reading:
Rosalind Krauss from "Originality of the Avant-Garde" (1981)
Art & Language "Letter to a Canadian Curator" (1982)
- Thursday
Work by the following artists:
Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly
Required Reading:
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Introduction to "The Postmodern Condition"(1984)
Suggested Reading:
Gerhard Richter "Interview with Benjamin Buchloh" (1986)
Raymond Williams "When was Modernism?" (1987/ 89)
"Cy Twombly" Comments by Heiner Bastian
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Provocations and Poets of Memory
Week 10
- Tuesday
Art as Social Practice
Work by the following artists:
Krysztof Wodiczko, Actup, Cady Noland, REPOhistory, Guerilla Girls
Required Readings:
Group Material "Caution! Alternative Space!" (1982)
Suggested Reading:
Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak "Who Claims Alterity?"(1989)
Haim Steinbach. Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, Philip Taafe, Peter Halley, Ashley Bickerton
From "Criticism to Complicity" (1986)
Art & Language 'Letter to Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler
Concerning the Article "The Dematerialization of the Art Object" (1968)
- Thursday
(QUIZZ)
Provocations and Poets of Memory
Work by the following artists:
Suzanne Lacy, Christian Boltanski, Robert Mapplethorpe
Required Readings:
Karen Finley "I Was Not Expected To Be Talented" (1990)
Suggested Readings:
Christian Boltanski "Interview with D. Davvetas (1985)
Jesse Helmes "Senator Helms Objects to Taxpayers' Funding for Sacrilegious Art
(1989) and Robert Mapplethorpe, Interview with Janet Kardon (1988)
Lynn Hershman "Video 1980- Present: Videotape as Alternative Space"(1992)
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Material, Dreams, Irony
Week 11
- Tuesday
Diversification of Practice
Work by the following artists:
Jenny Holzer, Carrie Mae Weems, David Hammons, Helio Oiticica
Required Reading:
Oyvind Fahlstroem, "Take Care of the World"
Suggested Reading:
Bill Viola "Video Black- The Mortality of the Image" (1990)
Video:
Sequences from various Wojnarowicz videos
Web Site:
Jenny Holzer "Please Change Belief"
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/project/holzer/cgi/pcb.cgi
- Thursday
Material, Dreams, Irony
Work by the following artists:
Lygia Clark, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Fischli and Weiss,
Required Reading:
Thomas Crow "Unwritten Histories of Conceptual Art" (1995)
Suggested Reading:
Allan Sekula from "Fishstory"
Video:
Sequence of Fischli and Weiss video "Der Lauf der Dinge"
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Eastern Europe
Week 12
- Tuesday
Eastern Europe
Work by the following artists:
Ilya Kabakov, Sislej Xhafa, Skart, Jozef Jankovic, Juraj Melis, Peter Bartos, Gorgona Group, Robert Rehfeld
Required Readings:
Laszlo Beke "Conceptual Tendencies in Eastern European Art"
- Thursday
Native American Art
Work by the following artists:
Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Faye Heavyshield, Carl Beam, Kay Walkingstick
Required Readings:
Baird, Robert "Going Indian: Discovery, Adoption, and Renaming toward a 'True American"
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Institutional Critique
Week 13
- Tuesday
Institutional Critique
Work by the following artists:
Mark Dion, Christian Phillip Miller
Required Readings:
From: Michael Asher "Writings 1975-1995" (will be provided in class)
Thursday
Work by the following artists:
Peter Friedl, Critical Art Ensemble
Required Readings:
Andrea Fraser "The 7th Museum"
Critical Art Ensemble "Observations on Collective Cultural Action" (1997)
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Net Art
Week 14
- Tuesday
Net Art
Work by the following artists, groups:
Jodi, RTMark, Heath Bunting
Required Readings:
Donna Haraway, "The Ironic Dream of a Common Language for
Women in the Integrated Circuit: Science, Technology, and Socialist
Feminism in the 1980s or A Socialist Feminist Manifesto for Cyborgs"
Browsing/ web walking assignments:
Will be emailed to you in time
- Thursday
Review Session
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From Mailing List to Art Collective
Week 15
- Tuesday
From Mailing List to Art Collective
Work by the following artists, groups, networks:
Next Five Minutes, Nettime, Syndicate,/ Critical Art Ensemble /
Vuk Cosic, Paul Garrin
Required Readings:
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (1945)
Suggested Reading:
Vilem Flusser, "The Bag"
Surfing assignments:
Nettime (Mailing list)
Syndicate (Mailing list)
- Thursday
Work by the following artists:
Rachel Whiteread, Esther and Jochen Gerz
Required Readings:
re-read all required texts in preparation for the final exam
