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Week 9

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November 20th – The Artist’s Labour

Today Steven Cottingham will be substituting for this specific class. Reading discussion on artist’s labour (and other cultural roles).

Discussion On

(To be confirmed with Steven)

  • Pascal Gielen The Art Scene. A Clever Working Model for Economic Exploitation? from Open 17:  A Precarious Existence, Vulnerability in the Public Domain
  • Claire Fontaine Human Strike has Already Begun in Human Strike Has Already Begun & Other Writings29-33 (Download available here )

Upcoming Deadlines

Studio & Events Analysis Due by 9am Monday November 27th in Connect

Week 4

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October 2nd – The Artist’s Studio

Discussion on the role and purpose of the artist’s studio and how it relates to your/a practice.

Required Reading/Discussion On:
  • Daniel Buren Function of the Studio in Museums by artists p.61-67
  • Rebecca Fortnum Creative Accounting: Not Knowing in Talking and Making from On Not Knowing: How Artists Think 70-87
Further Resources:
  • Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson Art in the Making Artists and their Materials: From Studio to Crowdsourcing 2016
  • Caitlin Jones The Function of the Studio (When the Studio is a Laptop) from STUDIO, p.116-121
  • Mary Jane Jacobs and Michelle Grabner The Studio Reader
  • Edited by Jens Hoffman STUDIO (From Whitechapel’s Documents of Contemporary Art series)
  • Twyla Tharp The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use it for Life
Homework
  • Prepare for being visited and conducting a studio visit for November 6th with peers in the class. Prepare and have work ready to show, can be in process/sketch and have language/writing or previous work for context.  Prepare to view colleague’s work in a critical and rigorous lens, have questions ready, etc.
  • By the end of this term you are to have attended 3 art events either at the University or in the city, one of those events must be with a partnership in this class.  An analysis on the studio visit experience and the events you attended is due November 27th.
Upcoming Due Dates

Poster Presentations for next class, including blog summary & poster upload.

Week 3

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September 25th – Galleries and Institutions

In-class discussion on readings of ARC’s, commercial art galleries, biennale’s, fairs, and other international art events and how it affects the type of art produced and the role of artistic practice.

Required Reading/Discussion On
  • Gabriele Detterer The Spirit and Culture of Artist-Run Spaces in Artist Run Spaces:  Nonprofit Collective Organizations in the 1960s and 1970s p.10-49
  • Michael Turner Whose Business Is It? Vancouver’s Commercial Galleries and the Production of Art in Vancouver Art & Economies p.205-218
Extra Resources
  • A Bronson The Humiliation of the Bureaucrat:  Artist-Run Centres as Museums by Artists first from Museums by artists (Available here)
  • AA Bronson The Transfiguration of the Bureaucrat in Institutions by Artists (Available here)
  • Keith Wallace Artist-Run Centres in Vancouver:  A Reflection on Three Texts in Institutions by Artists
  • Sarah Thornton The Fair in Seven Days in the Art World  76-104 (this whole books is really fun!)
  • Jan Verwoert The Curious Case of Biennial Art in Filipovic, Van Hal, Ovstebo The Biennial Reader
  • Okwui Enwezor Mega-Exhibitions and the Antinomies of the Transnational Global Form in Filipovic, Van Hal, Ovstebo The Biennial Reader
  • Gerardo Mosquera Beyond Anthropophagy: Art, Internationaization, and Cultural Dynamics in The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
  • Sara Giannini J’est un autre: Notes on Cannibalism and Contemporary Art from The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
Lecture

On art Events, Global and Local, including Fairs, Biennale’s, etc….

In-Class Reflection Activity
  • Intro to reflection & meeting with the partner – how did it go?
  • Personal and Group Shareback – Articulate Learning
Homework
  • For October 16th, please prepare and print a poster for display that describes your partner; include the mission, history, structure, programming, and other details for the purpose of knowledge sharing with your classmates. As well, a blog submission on your institution/artist with a summary, and include a smaller version of your poster (pdf or jpg) on your blog for classmates to download.
  • Readings on “The Artist’s Studio” due for next week’s reading discussion.
Upcoming Work

Please have a project outline posted on your blog by 9am October 2nd (let me know if you need an extension), and remember your readings for next week!