Readings

The following readings are mandatory for this class:

 September 19th:  
  • Pablo Lafuente: Ricardo Basbaum, Or That Elusive Object of Emancipation. Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context, and Enquiry, Issue 28 (Autumn/Winter 2011), pp. 78-89. Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. Download PDF: Or_That_Elusive_Object.pdf
  • Curator+Artist=Artist-Curator? A conversation with Ricardo Basbaum. Download PDF: basbaum.pdf
October 3rd:  
Awareness of the presence of affective layers; the poetics of art-life and its strategies of contact with humans, non-humans and things; 
  • Allan Kaprow, “The education of the un-artist, part I, part II, part III”, in Essays on the blurring of art and life, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993. Download PDFs: 
  1. kaprow-alan--education-of-the-un-artist-part-i.pdf 
  2. kaprow-alan--the-education-of-the-un-artist-part-ii.pdf   
  3. kaprow-allan--education-of-the-un-artist-part-iii.pdf

Artwork production and event construction as a relational set: the performative as methodology

  • Irit Rogoff, “Turning”, Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson (Orgs.). Curating and the educational turn, Londres, Open Editions, Amsterdam, De Appel, 2010. p. 32-46. Download PDF: Rogoff_Turning.pdf
  • Janna Graham, “Between a pedagogical turn and a hard place: thinking with conditions”, Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson (Orgs.). Curating and the educational turn, Londres, Open Editions, Amsterdam, De Appel, 2010. p. 124-139. Download PDF: Janna_Graham.pdf: Janna_Graham.pdf
October 10th:  
The artwork as carrier of a conceptual aggregate, set in motion: 

  • Ricardo Basbaum: Within the Organic Line and After*. Originally published in english in Art after conceptual art, ed. Alexander Alberro and Sabeth Buchmann, (Cambridge, MA/London: MIT Press, Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2006), 87–99. Download PDF: conceptualartorganicline.pdf 
  • Joseph Kosuth. “Art after philosophy”, in Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson (Eds.). Conceptual art: a critical anthology, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1999. Download PDF: Art_After_Philosophy.pdf 
  • Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, “Conceptual art 1962–1969: from the aesthetic of administration to the critique of institutions”, in Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson (Eds.). Conceptual art: a critical anthology, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1999. Download PDF: buchloh_conceptual_art_1962_1969.pdf
The image of the artist: to build oneself, to be built in public  
  • Gilles Deleuze, "Eighteenth Series of the Three Images of Philosophers", in Logic of Sense, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1990. Download PDF: deleuze_logic_of_sense.pdf  
  • Ricardo Basbaum, “I love etc-artists”, in The next documenta should be curated by an artist, Jens Hoffmann (Ed.), e-flux, 2004. Download PDF: etc_artist.pdf
October 17th:  
The artist’s practice as a mode of pertaining to a generational, collective or communitarian formation; 
  • “Preface” (XI-XVII) “Introduction: Periodizing Collectivism” (1-15). Blake Stimson and Gregory Shollete (Eds.). Collectivism after modernism: the art of social imagination after 1945. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Download PDF: collectivism_intro.pdf  
  • Stefan Helmreich, “How Like a Reef: Figuring Coral, 1839-2010”, http://reefhelmreich.blogspot.com.br/ 
The artwork as activator of historical articulations, in a transtemporal present;    
October 24th:  
The artist’s writing, the text as an artwork;

  • Kenneth Goldsmith and Craig Dworkin. "Introduction: Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing", Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 2011.  Download PDF: goldsmith_dworkin_intro.pdf

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