(Required in Bold, otherwise recommended)
Artist’s Role
- Ann Hamilton Making Not Knowing from Learning Mind: Experience Into Art p.66-73
- Excerpts from AKADEMIE X: Lessons in Art + Life 2015
- James Elkins (Ed) What do Artists Know? 2012
- Michael Schwab (Ed) Experimental Systems: Future Knowledge in Artistic Research 2013
- Estelle Barrett Experiential Learning in practice as research: context, method, knowledge from Journal of Visual Art Practice, Volume 6 Number 2, 2007 p.115-123
- Janet Eyler Creating Your Reflection Map from New Directions for Higher Education114, Summer 2001 p.35-43
Artist Run Culture
- Gabriele Detterer The Spirit and Culture of Artist-Run Spaces in Artist Run Spaces: Nonprofit Collective Organizations in the 1960s and 1970s10-49
- AA 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 (Available here)
Commercial & International Events
- Michael Turner Whose Business Is It? Vancouver’s Commercial Galleries and the Production of Art in Vancouver Art & Economies205-218
- Sarah Thornton The Fair in Seven Days in the Art World 76-104
- 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, Interantionaization, 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
The Artist’s Studio
- Daniel Buren Function of the Studio in Museums by artists p.61-67 (on Connect)
- Rebecca Fortnum Creative Accounting: Not Knowing in Talking and Making from On Not Knowing: How Artists Think 70-87
- 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 2010
- Edited by Jens Hoffman STUDIO (From Whitechapel’s Documents of Contemporary Art series) 2012
- Twyla Tharp The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use it for Life 2003
Artist as Activist
- Alfredo Jaar It is Difficult from from Learning Mind: Experience Into Art82-89
- Claire Bishop Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics in October 110, Fall 2004. P.51-79
- Renzo Martens and Joe Penney ‘Enjoy Poverty’: Interview with Renzo Martens (Available here)
- Marcus Steinweg Art between Affirmation and Critique in Scandalous: A Reader on Art and Ethics p.169-175
- Boris Groys On Art Activism from e-flux (Available here)
- Chantal Mouffe Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces Art&Research 2007
- Mick Wilson Autonomy, Agonism, and Activist Art: An Interview with Grant Kester from Art Journal 2006
- Nicolas Bourriaud Excerpt from Relational Aesthetics (Presses du Réel, 1998, trans. 2002)
The Artist’s Labour
- Pascal Gielen The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude: Global Art, Memory and Post-Fordism12-32 (On Connect)
- Turions, Cheyanne Youth in Revolt: Precarious Labour, the Young Curator and Sectorial Burn Out in the Media Arts (Available here)
- Claire Fontaine Human Strike has Already Begun in Human Strike Has Already Begun & Other Writings29-33 PDF Download available here: http://www.metamute.org/shop/mute-books/human-strike-has-already-begun-other-essays
- Andrea Fraser It’s Art When I Say It’s Art, Or… in Museum Highlights, the Writings of Andrea Fraser p.37-44
- Liam Gillick The Good of Work Available here: www.liamgillick.info/home/texts/why-work
- Keti Chukhrov On the False Democracy of Contemporary Art from e-flux Available here: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/on-the-false-democracy-of-contemporary-art/
- Hans Haacke All the Art that’s Fit to Show from Museums by artists p.151-152
- Pascal Gielen The Art Scene. A Clever Working Model for Economic Exploitation? from Open 17: A Precarious Existence, Vulnerability in the Public Domain