{"id":621,"date":"2018-10-11T01:32:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T08:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/?p=621"},"modified":"2024-05-27T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T18:12:27","slug":"visa-480-readings-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/visa-480-readings-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"VISA 480 Readings &#038; Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>READING LIST (2017)<br \/>\n<\/strong>The following readings have inspired the big concepts and directions of the course.\u00a0 However, the following is not an inclusive list of all references on the topic, and some may be considered \u201cstretches\u201d -which I am interested in linking relationship to artistic practice.\u00a0 Required readings for 2017 are in bold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NOTHING TO HIDE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Heidegger, Martin trans. by Albert Hofstader <em>The Thing<\/em> in <u>Poetry, Language, Thought<\/u> 1971 (p. 163-169)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Peters, Gary <em>Ahead of Yes and No: Heidegger on Not Knowing and Art<\/em> in <u>On Not Knowing<\/u> 2013 (p.110-119)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Heidegger, Martin <em>Chapter one \u2013 Fundamental Questions of Metaphysics<\/em> in <u>Introduction to Metaphysics<\/u> 1953<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NOTHING CHANGES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Irigaray, Luce <em>This Sex Which is Not One<\/em> in <u>This Sex Which is Not One<\/u> 1985 (p.23-33)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Krauss, Rosalind E <em>The Destiny of the Informe<\/em> in <u>Formless: A User\u2019s Guide<\/u>\u00a0 1997 (p. 235-252 &amp; 285-287)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kristeva, Julia <em>Approaching Abjection<\/em> in <u>Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection<\/u> 1982 (p. 1-10)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Foster, Hal <em>Obscene, Abject, Traumatic*<\/em> in <u>October<\/u> 1996 (p. 107-24)<\/li>\n<li>Krauss, Rosalind E Chapter four from <u>The Optical Unconscious<\/u> 1993 (p. 149-178)<\/li>\n<li>Krauss, Rosalind <u>L\u2019Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism<\/u> 1985<\/li>\n<li>Winnicott, D.W Chapter 1: <em>Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena<\/em> from <u>Playing &amp; Reality <\/u>1971<\/li>\n<li>Randolph, Jeanne <em>The Amenable Object<\/em> from <u>Psychoanalysis and Synchronized Swimming<\/u> 1991 (p. 21-35)<\/li>\n<li>Adams, Parveen <u>The Emptiness of the Image: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference <\/u>1996<\/li>\n<li>Berlant, Lauren <em>Affect Is the New Trauma<\/em> from <u>the minnesota review<\/u> 2009 (p. 131-36)<\/li>\n<li>Grosz, Elizabeth <em>Bergson, Deleuze and the Becoming of Unbecoming<\/em> in <u>parallax<\/u> 2005 (p. 4-13)<\/li>\n<li>Phelan, Peggy <em>Developing the negative: Mapplethorpe, Schor, and Sherman<\/em> in <u>Unmarked:\u00a0 the politics of performance<\/u> 1993 (p.34-70)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NOTHING TO LOSE\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ferreira da Silva, Denise <em>1(life)\/0(blackness)=&amp;-&amp; or &amp;\/&amp;: On Matter Beyond the Equation of Value<\/em> from <u>e-flux<\/u> 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Adusei-Poku, Nana <em>On Being Present Where You Wish to Disappear<\/em> from <u>e-flux<\/u> 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sexton, Jared <em>All Black Everything<\/em> from <u>e-flux<\/u> 2017<\/li>\n<li>Lippard, Lucy <u>Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America<\/u> 1990<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NOTHING MORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sontag, Susan <em>The Aesthetics of Silence<\/em> Available here: <u>ubu.com\/aspen\/aspen5and6\/threeEssays.html#sontag<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fraser, Andrea <em>Why Does Fred Sandback\u2019s Work Make Me Cry?<\/em> in <u>Grey Room<\/u> 22 (p. 30-47) <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cage, John <u>Silence: Lectures and Writing<\/u> 1961<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Burgin, Victor <em>The Absence of Presence<\/em> (excerpt) in <u>Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas<\/u> Edited by Charles Harrison &amp; Paul Wood (p. 1097-1101)<\/li>\n<li>Lee, Pamela <em>On the Holes of History: Gordon Matta-Clark\u2019s Work in Paris<\/em> in <u>Octobe<\/u>r Vol. 85 (p.65-89)<\/li>\n<li>Baas, Jacqueline <u>Buddha Mind in Contemporary<\/u> Art 2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ALL OR NOTHING<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Agamben, Giorgio <u>The Man Without Content<\/u> 1994<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Groys, Boris <em>Under the Gaze of Theory<\/em> from <u>e-flux<\/u> 2012<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Charney, Leo Chapter 1: <em>Drift<\/em> in <u>Empty Moments<\/u> 1998 (p. 5-25)<\/li>\n<li>Noys, Benjamin <u>The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory<\/u> 2010<\/li>\n<li>Roelstraete, Dieter <em>The Business: On the Unbearable Lightness of Art<\/em> from <u>e-flux<\/u> Journal #42, 2007<\/li>\n<li>Crary, Jonathan <u>24\/7<\/u> 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NOTHING LASTS FOR EVER<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Barad, Karen <em>What Is the Measure of Nothingness? Infinity, Virtuality, Justice<\/em> in 100 Notes 100 Thoughts documenta 13, 2012 (p. 4-17)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Baudrillard, Jean<u> Why Hasn\u2019t Everything Already Disappeared?<\/u> 2011 (p.9-77)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Baudrillard, Jean <u>Passwords<\/u> 2003<\/li>\n<li>Baudrillard, Jean Chapter 7 in <u>Simulacra and Simulations<\/u> 1981<\/li>\n<li>Galloway, Alexander <em>Are Some Things Unrepresentable?<\/em> From <u>The interface effect<\/u> 2012<\/li>\n<li>Ranciere, Jacques <em>Are Some things Unrepresentable?<\/em> From <u>The Future of the Image<\/u> 2007 (p.109-142)<\/li>\n<li>Haraway, Donna <em>A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism and the Late Twentieth Century<\/em> in <u>Simians, Cyborgs and Women:\u00a0 The Reinvention of Nature<\/u>\u00a0 (p. 150)<\/li>\n<li>Lyotard, Jean-Francois <em>Can Thought go on Without a Body?<\/em> in <u>The Inhuman<\/u> 1988 (p. 8-23)<\/li>\n<li>Deleuze, Gilles trans. Eliot Ross Albert <em>The Actual and the Virtual<\/em> in <u>Dialogues II<\/u> 2002 (p. 148-152 &amp; 157-159)<\/li>\n<li>Zizek, Slavoj <u>Organs without Bodies<\/u> 2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXTENDED READINGS IN ART, LITERATURE &amp; ART HISTORY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Copeland, Mathieu (editor) <u>Voids: a Retrospective<\/u> 2009<\/li>\n<li>Gould, Claudia <u>The Big Nothing<\/u> 2004<\/li>\n<li>de Duve, Thierry <em>The Monochrome and the Blank Canvas<\/em> in <u>Kant After Duchamp<\/u> 1996 (p. 199-230)<\/li>\n<li>Rugoff, Ralph <em>On Invisibility in Art<\/em> from <u>Invisible:\u00a0 Art about the Unseen 1957-2012<\/u> 2012\u00a0 (p.100-111)<\/li>\n<li>Bhabha, Homi K. <em>Making Emptiness<\/em> (on Anish Kapoor\u2019s web-site, no date given)<\/li>\n<li>Sharp, Chris T<em>he Concert Was Not a Success: On the Withdrawal of Withdrawal<\/em> in <u>fillip<\/u> 2013 (p.94-101)<\/li>\n<li>Groom, Amelia <em>There\u2019s Nothing to See Here: Erasing the Monochrome<\/em> from <u>e-flux<\/u> 2008<\/li>\n<li>Baas, Jacquelynn <em>Unframing Experience<\/em> from <u>Learning Mind: Experience Into Art<\/u> 2009 (p. 216-229)<\/li>\n<li>Ilya Kabakov <em>On the Subject of \u2018The Void\u2019<\/em> from <u>Total Enlightenment: Moscow Conceptual Art 1960\u20131990<\/u> 2008, (p.366\u2013375)<\/li>\n<li>Perec, Georges trans. By Gilbert Adair <u>Void<\/u> 1969<\/li>\n<li>Ellison, Ralph <u>Invisible Man<\/u> 1952<\/li>\n<li>Beckett, Samuel <u>Stories and Texts for Nothing<\/u> 1946, <u>Endgame<\/u> 1957<\/li>\n<li>Rumold, Rainer <u>Reading the Illegible<\/u> 2003<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EXTENDED PHILOSOPHY<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Esposito, Roberto <em>Community and Nihilism<\/em> from <u>Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy <\/u> 5 no. 1 2009 (p.24-36)<\/li>\n<li>Kenning, Dean <em>Art Relations and the Presence of Absence<\/em> in <u>Third Text<\/u> 23, 2009 (p.435-446)<\/li>\n<li>Foucault, Michel <em>The Historical a priori and the Archive<\/em> from\u00a0<u>The Archaeology of Knowledge<\/u> 1969<\/li>\n<li>Freud, Sigmund <em>Negation<\/em> from <u>Sigmund Freud Standard Ed 19<\/u>, 1925 (p.235-239)<\/li>\n<li>Badiou, Alain <em>Three Negations<\/em> 2008<\/li>\n<li>Houdt, John Van <em>The Crisis of Negation: An Interview with Alain Badiou<\/em> from continent 1.4 2001 (p.234-238)<\/li>\n<li>Roberts, John <em>On the limits of negation in Badiou\u2019s theory of art<\/em> in <u>Journal of Visual Arts Practice<\/u>, vol.7 no.3, 2008 (p.271-282)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Schedule<\/h3>\n<p><u>Week 1 \u2013 September 8<sup>th<\/sup><\/u>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 INTRODUCTION<\/p>\n<p>Introduction to the course, syllabus, assignments and schedule.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Week 2 \u2013 September 15<sup>th<\/sup><\/u> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NOTHING TO HIDE<\/p>\n<p>We will discuss a phenomenological perspective of nothing, via Heidegger\u2019s \u201cThe Thing\u201d (which seems opposite the nothing but it completely made up of it) and apply this to the art-making process and decision making that comes with entering the not known.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Martin Heidegger trans. by Albert Hofstader The Thing in <u>Poetry, Language, Thought<\/u> (p. 163-169)<\/li>\n<li>Peters, Gary Ahead of Yes and No: Heidegger on Not Knowing and Art in <u>On Not Knowing<\/u> (p.110-119)<\/li>\n<li>Plant, Sadie Eleven Thoughts on Nothing in <u>Voids<\/u> (p. 365-66)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Journal #1 (Due: September 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 11:59pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Week 3 \u2013 September 22<sup>nd<\/sup><\/u> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NOTHING CHANGES<\/p>\n<p>Towards a more psychoanalytic context, today\u2019s class will propose different terms and developments of a behavioral perspective or subject by other means on a loose idea of nothing, developed in the language of feminist theory by way of French philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Irigaray, Luce This Sex Which is Not One in <u>This Sex Which is Not One<\/u> (p.23-33)<\/li>\n<li>Krauss, Rosalind E The Destiny of the Informe in <u>Formless: A User\u2019s Guide<\/u>\u00a0 (p.235-252 &amp; 285-287)<\/li>\n<li>Kristeva, Julia Approaching Abjection in <u>Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection<\/u> (9 pages)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due:\u00a0 Journal #2 (Due:\u00a0 September 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 11:59pm)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Week 4 \u2013 September 29<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NOTHING TO LOSE<\/p>\n<p>Delving into problematics of power and identity, this class brings in art works and academic writing to the idea of nothing by way of understanding how value and \u2018mattering\u2019 are allocated and how.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ellison, Ralph Prologue in <u>Invisible Man<\/u> (p.3-4)<\/li>\n<li>Ferreira da Silva, Denise 1 (life) \u00f7 0 (blackness) = \u221e \u2212 \u221e or \u221e \/ \u221e: On Matter Beyond the Equation of Value from <u>e-flux <\/u>Journal #79, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Adusei-Poku, Nana On Being Present Where You Wish to Disappear from <u>e-flux<\/u> Journal #80, 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Journal #3 (Due: September 27<sup>th<\/sup>, 11:59pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Week 5 \u2013 October 6<sup>th<\/sup><\/u>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NOTHING MORE<\/p>\n<p>Turning towards artistic practice, this class articulates the moment of which a work does so little, towards abolishment, negativity, towards the mystical, spiritual, affective or emotional.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sontag, Susan The Aesthetics of Silence Available on www.ubu.com<\/li>\n<li>Fraser, Andrea Why Does Fred Sandback\u2019s Work Make Me Cry? in <u>Grey Room<\/u> 22 (p. 30-47)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Journal #4 (Due: October 4<sup>th,<\/sup> 11:59pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Week 6 \u2013 October 13<sup>th<\/sup><\/u>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 STUDIO VISITS<\/p>\n<p>Today class will be held in the Audain studios, please be prepared to have studio visits with your peers today, focusing on upcoming mid-term work.<\/p>\n<p>Due:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dictionary Page due via dropbox upload, see assignment description for details, be sure to use template.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Week 7 &amp; 8 \u2013 October 20<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; 27<sup>t<\/sup><\/u><sup>h<\/sup> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CRITIQUES<\/p>\n<p>Mid-Term Critiques (12 each day) \u2013 Mid-Term projects due<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Week 9 \u2013 November 3<sup>rd<\/sup> <\/u>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ALL OR NOTHING<\/p>\n<p>Towards a more cynical or nihilistic concept of nothing, we will discuss the role of theory in artistic practice and a self-aware perspective of art-making that may touch on irony.\u00a0 Overall, we will be talking about quite a lot, that turns self-negating.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Agamben, Giorgio <u>The Man Without Content<\/u> 1994 (p.52-58)<\/li>\n<li>Groys, Boris Under the Gaze of Theory from <u>e-flux<\/u> 2012TOTAL PGS. 29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Journal #5 (Due: November 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 11:59pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Week 10 \u2013 November 10<sup>th<\/sup><\/u> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NOTHING LASTS FOREVER<\/p>\n<p>Looking towards the virtual, we will end the class on Baudrillard\u2019s final piece of writing called \u201cWhy Hasn\u2019t Everything Already Disappeared?\u201d\u00a0 The writing is a poetic summary of what it at stake as we go towards hyperreality and pure simulation, when abundance should result in disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baudrillard, Jean<u> Why Hasn\u2019t Everything Already Disappeared?<\/u> 2011 (p.9-77)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Journal #6 (Due: November 8<sup>th,<\/sup> 11:59pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Week 11 \u2013 November 17<sup>th<\/sup><\/u> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 STUDIO VISITS<\/p>\n<p>Be prepared to have studio visits with your peers, focus on upcoming mid-term work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Week 11 &amp; 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