| Choosing readings for an interdisciplinary grad and undergrad course
is a difficult task for an instructor, and I have assembled a set of
readings that have been helpful to me at different points in my development.
I hope they are useful to you. Some may be too difficult; others may
be too easy. I welcome your feedback and suggestions for the reading
list. All readings are due on the date listed. |
06.17.04:
Readings 01: The Lay of the Land |
Phillips,
Patricia, “Requirements
for Optional Art,” Pressure on the Public, Hillsboro,
Wisconsin: Hirsch Foundation, 1992. |
Lacy,
Suzanne, “Cultural
Pilgrimages and Metaphic Journeys,” Mapping
the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, Seattle: Bay Press, 1995. |
| Felshin,
Nina, “Introduction,” But
is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism, Seattle: Bay
Press, 1995. |
| Kwon, Miwon, “From
Site to Community in New Genre Public Art: The Case of ‘Culture
in Action’,” One
Place After Another, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002. |
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06.22.04:
Readings 02: Graphics |
| Deutsche, Rosalyn, “Agoraphobia,” Evictions:
Art and Spatial Politics, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996. |
| Pincus, Robert, “Invisible
Town Square: Artists’ Collaborations and Media Dreams in
America’s Biggest Border Town,” in Nina Felshin,
ed., But is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism, Seattle:
Bay Press, 1995. |
| Meyer, Richard, “This
is to Enrage You: Gran Fury and the Graphics of AIDS Activism,” in
Nina Felshin, ed., But is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism,
Seattle: Bay Press, 1995. |
| Lasn, Kalle, “Demarketing
Loops,” Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America, New York:
Eagle Brook, 1999. |
| Plug-In
Theory 01: excepts of Marx, Barthes, Debord* |
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07.01.04:
Readings 03a: Performance Theory |
| Artaud,
Antonin, “The
Theater of Cruelty: First Manifesto,” in
Susan Sontag, ed., Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings, New York:
Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1976. |
| Brecht, Bertolt, “Short
Organum on Theater,” in
John Willett, ed., Brecht on Theater, New York: Hill and Wang,
1992. |
| Kaprow,
Allan, "Non-Theatrical Performance," in Jeff Kelley, ed., Essays
on the Blurring of Art and Life, Berkeley: CA, 1993. |
| The
Critical Art Ensemble, “Recombinant
Theater and the Performative Matrix,” from The
Electronic Disturbance, Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia,
1994. |
| Plug-In
Theory 02: excerpt of Althusser |
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07.06.04:
Readings 03b: Performance Practice |
| Nochlin,
Linda, “The Paterson Strike
Pageant of 1913,” in Bruce a. McConachie and Daniel
Friedman, eds., Theater for Working-Class Audience in the
United States, 1830-1980, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1985. |
| Boal,
Augusto, “Poetics of the Oppressed,” Theater
of the Oppressed, New York: Urizen Books, 1979. |
| Kelley,
Jeff, “The Body Politics
of Suzanne Lacy,” in Nina Felshin, ed., But is
It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism, Seattle: Bay Press,
1995. |
| Berger, Maurice, “Interview
with Adrian Piper,” in
Grant Kester, ed. Art, Activism, and Oppositionality, Durham, South
Carolina: Duke University Press, 1998. |
| Sholette,
Gregory G., "Dark
Matter, Las Agencias, and the Aesthetics of Tactical Embarassment," Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, October
2003. |
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07.20.04:
Readings 04: Tour |
| Urry,
John, “Globalizing the
Gaze,” The Tourist Gaze, London: Sage Publications, 2002. |
| Certeau,
Michel, “Walking in the
City,” The Practice of Everyday
Life, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984. |
| Lippard, Lucy, “The
Tourist at Home,” On
the Beaten Track, New York: The New Press, 1999. |
| Sholette,
Gregory, “Authenticity
Squared: REPOhistory CIRCULATION: Anatomy of an Activist, Urban
Art Project,” New Art Examinder, December 1999. |
| Coolidge,
Matthew, Back to the Bay: Exploring
the Margins of the San Francisco Bay Region, (excerpts), Los Angeles: The Center for Land Use
Interpretation, 2001. |
| Plug-In
Theory 03: excerpt of Baudrillard |
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08.05.04: Readings 05: Evaluation |
| Kwon, Miwon, “The
Unsitings of Community,” One
Place After Another, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002. |
| Lacy, Suzanne, “Debated
Territory: Toward a Critical Language for Public Art,” Mapping
the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, Seattle: Bay Press, 1995. |
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| *“Plug-In Theory” readings
are optional for everyone but recommended for undergrads and those
with a limited background in recent critical theory. The readings do
not relate directly to our work but offer a helpful background for
making and discussion. |
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