25.08.2009
Summer School 2009
Corner College is delighted to present Summer School by artist, Antoni Wojtyra, this summer during July and August.
Summer School presents readings, lectures, and films composed as a remedial Art theory class and is organized in a spirit of "each one, teach one" - Antoni Wojtyra will act as lead organizer, a guide, instigator and as a student learning, not just a teacher. The 7 week course employs a collection Art and theory by artists and primarily address 2 major issues: the ability of Art to effect social change and secondly places and strategies of Art production.
Texts will be read by each student in advance and will be discussed together as a group and supplemented by films, and invited guest teachers. The first class addresses the impossibility of learning and knowing everything and it will be held on Tuesday July 7, 7 p.m. All subsequent classes will be held on Tuesday evenings (schedule below). A nominal CHF 30.- tuition fee for participating students includes a course book published by Rollo Press.
Program
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1 Tuesday July 7, 7 p.m.
Introduction, Sign-up and get together
-- Film: 'La Jetée' by Chris Marker
-- Text: 'The Library of Babel' by Jorge Luis Borges
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2 Tuesday July 14, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'Untitled' by David Hammons
-- Text: 'Something's Missing' by Ken Lum
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3 Tuesday July 21, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'The Applied Social Arts' by Artur Zmijewski
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4 Tuesday July 28, 7 p.m.
VACATION
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5 Tuesday August 4, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'Inside the white cube: notes on the gallery space' by Brian O'Doherty
-- Text: 'May I help you?' by Andrea Fraser
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6 Tuesday August 11, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'An introduction to the general theory of place' by Wieslaw Borowski, Hanna Plaszkowska, Mariusz Tchorek
-- 3 Films by Gordon Matta Clark Conical Intersect (1975), Splitting (1974), Bingo Ninths (1974)
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7 Tuesday August 18, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'Depiction, Object, Event' by Jeff Wall
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8 Tuesday August 25, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'Dispersion' by Seth Price
GRADUATION PARTY
Summer School 2009
> Download the Course Book as a PDF
Theory Tuesdays
Theory Tuesdays is a participatory reading group organized in the spirit of "each one, teach one." Philip Matesic will launch the weekly reading group with the organization and coordination of the first six weeks under the theme "Participation in Art." The required texts will be read by each member in advance and then discussed together as a group.
At the conclusion of the fifth week, the reading schedule will be open to the individual members of the group, to decide what to read and discuss in the following weeks. Active participation by all members is essential as Theory Tuesdays sets out to be a collaborative, ongoing discussion, where everyone will contribute, teach and learn from one another.
The first two Tuesdays will address the historical lineage of participation in art as well as a detailed glimpse into Happenings in New York in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The first session will be held on Tuesday, Oktober 6 at 7 p.m. All subsequent sessions will be held on Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. (schedule below). A nominal CHF 20.- tuition fee for participating members will include copies of required readings and help fund a small travel budget for the visiting artist.
Theory Tuesdays
PROGRAM
Week 1: Tuesday, Oktober 6, 7 p.m.
Sign-up and Introduction
Text: Rudolf Frieling "Toward Participation in Art"
Week 2: Tuesday, Oktober 13, 7 p.m.
Text: Boris Groys "A Genealogy of Participatory Art"
Text: Allan Kaprow "Happenings in the New York Scene"
Week 3: Tuesday, Oktober 20, 7 p.m.
Text: Claire Bishop "Viewers As Producers"
Text: Nicolas Bourriaud "Relational Form"
Text: Lars Bang Larsen "Social Aesthetics"
Week 4: Tuesday, Oktober 27, 7 p.m.
Text: Miwon Kwon "From Site to Community in New Genre Public Art"
Text: Cascoland "Interventions in Public Space"
Week 5: Tuesday, November 3, 7 p.m.
Text: Darren O’ Donnell "Social Acupuncture" (Part One and Two)
Text: Tom Finkelpearl "Interview: Vito Acconci on Art, Architecture, Arvada and Storefront"
Week 6: Tuesday, November 10, 7 p.m.
Visiting Artist: Saskia de Brauw (NL)
20.10.2009
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Text: Claire Bishop "Viewers As Producers"
Text: Nicolas Bourriaud "Relational Form"
Text: Lars Bang Larsen "Social Aesthetics"
> Viewers As Producers
> Relational Form
> Social Aesthetics
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Text: Miwon Kwon "From Site to Community in New Genre Public Art"
Text: Cascoland "Interventions in Public Space"
> From Site to Community in New Genre Public Art
> Interventions in Public Space
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Text: Darren O’ Donnell "Social Acupuncture" (Part One and Two)
Text: Tom Finkelpearl "Interview: Vito Acconci on Art, Architecture, Arvada and Storefront"
> Social Acupuncture
> Interview: Vito Acconci on Art, Architecture, Arvada and Storefront
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays Special
Visiting Artist: Saskia de Brauw (NL)
Saskia de Brauw is a performance artist, dancer, and photographer living and working in Amsterdam. She has completed multiple projects investigating the body in relation to architectural space, community and time. Participation has played an important role in her projects, ranging from a one on one folding project on the streets of Paris to collaborating with a small community in Amersfoort, Netherlands.
Room II, The Dutch seaside, 2005
Saskia will be presenting her work and a recent publication about her work, entitled “Traces”, on Tuesday, November 10th at 7pm at Corner College. This event is hosted and sponsored by Theory Tuesdays. More information and documentation about Saskia’s art practice can be found on her website: http://www.saskiadebrauw.com
Theory Tuesdays
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Film: "On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972" Documentary (1989)
Film: "La Société du spectacle" by Guy Debord (1973)
True
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Text: Excerpts from "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century" by Greil Marcus (1989)
Lipstick Traces
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Text: Excerpts from "Ästhetik der Interpassivität" by Robert Pfaller (2009)
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> Against Participation
> Interpassivität heute
19.00 Uhr
Theory Thuesdays
Text: Excerpts from "Art As Experience" by John Dewey (1934)
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> John Dewey - Deutsche Fassung
> John Dewey - English Version
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Film: "Back to Fucking Cambridge" by Otto Mühl and Terese Panoutsopoulos (1987)
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> AA Human Rights, 1977
> Back to Fucking Cambridge, 1987
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Text: "Altermodern" Exhibition Catalogue curated by Nicolas Bourriaud (2009)
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> Altermodern Indroduction
> Altermodern T.J. Demos
> Altermodern Okwui Enwezor
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
This week's Theory Tuesdays will be a Dada Historical Review, held at the Cabaret Voltaire!
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> Hugo Balls Eröffnungs-Manifest
> Hugo Balls Eröffnungs-Manifest in gesprochener Form
> Debbie Lewer - Fuga Saeculi
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
This week's Theory Tuesdays will be a Dada Historical Review, held at the Cabaret Voltaire!
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> Hugo Ball - Lautgedichte
> Hugo Ball - Der Künstler und die Zeitkrankheit
> Hans Ulrich Obrist - Manifestos for the Future
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
"Altermodern" continued...
1. "The Ends of Exile: Toward A Coming Universality" by T.J. Demos
2. "Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence" by Okwui Enwezor
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> Altermodern Manifesto - Nicolas Bourriaud
> The Ends of Exile - Toward A Coming Universality by T.J. Demos
> Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence by Okwui Enwezor
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Selected writings of Hal Foster:
1. "The Artist As Ethnographer?"
2. Excerpts from "Design and Crime"
Hal Foster
> The Artist As Ethnographer?
> Design and Crime
> This Funeral is for the Wrong Corpse
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
The White Cube and The Studio
1. "Inside The White Cube" by Brian O'Doherty (Introduced by Daniel M.)
2. "Studio And Cube, On The Relationship Between Where Art Is Made And Where Art Is Displayed" by Brian O'Doherty
White Cube
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
"Migrants of Identity" by Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson
1. Introduction: The Topic and the Book
2. Chapter 1: Home and Movement: A Polemic
Migrants of Identity
> Introduction - The Topic and the Book
> Home and Movement - A Polemic
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Incomplete Open Cubes
Conceptual Art
> Sol LeWitt - Paragraphs on Conceptual Art
> Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens - Who's afraid of Conceptual Art
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tusedays
--- "Foksal Gallery and the Notion of Archive: Between Inventory and Place" by Pawel Polit
Foskal Gallery and the Notion of Archive -- Between Inventory and Place
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19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
--- Excerpts from "Celebration at Persepolis" by Michael Stevenson
Celebration at Persepolis
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Visiting Artist: Nic Hess
http://www.nichess.ch
Simple Mathematics
"Auf Nic Hess’ Wegen bleiben die Insignien der globalisierten Welt an den Bändern und Folien kleben. Insbesondere Logos und Markenzeichen, Signets und Embleme gehen ihm auf den Leim, von Finanzinstituten und Hilfswerken, von Sportartikelherstellern und Lebensmittelketten. Mit dieser Entourage in den Museen, Galerien, Kulturinstituten, aber auch Privathäusern und Industriekomplexen angekommen, verklebt Nic Hess seine Bänder und Folien zu grossen Erzählungen, wie andere Künstler Linien zeichnen und Flächen malen. Wand- und deckenfüllend, treppenhausdurchwandernd, die Fenster kreuzend, bis in die Schornsteine kriechend. Die unterwegs eingefangenen Logos und anderen Zeichen finden sich, miteinander versöhnt und verbrüdert, an allen Ecken und Enden. Daher hat Nic Hess weltweit nicht nur den Ruf, Meister der Klebebänder zu sein, sondern auch Meister der Logos."
http://www.schweizermonatshefte.ch/index.php?nav=aktl&artikel=136030.03.2010
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
--- Mladen Dolar’s "What's In A Voice"
--- Video Lecture: Mladen Dolar's "What’s In A Voice"
http://vimeo.com/7667628
Mladen Dolar
> Mladen Doler - What's in a Voice?
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
--- Excerpts from "Producing Publics / Making Worlds! On the Relationship Between the Art Public and the Counterpublic" by Marion von Ostern
> Producing Publics (DE)
> Producing Publics (EN)
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
--- "The Fracturing of Globalization" by Julian Stallabrass
--- "Acting Out in the City: Artistic Intervention as Production of Public Space" by Hou Hanru
> Julian Stallabrass
> Hou Hanru
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Visiting Artist: Lada Nakonechna
Dear Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Can We Ever Give Up the Sweet? by Lada Nakonechna
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
--- "Design Thinking or Critical Design?" by Rick Poynor
--- "Middle Culture: Designers, Artists, Professionals" by Camiel van Winkel
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> Rick Poynor
> Camiel van Winkel
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
--- Film: "Ameise der Kunst" by Jonathan Meese
Jonathan Meese
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Hungry for Antropophagy
"Abaporu" the antropophagic emblem
> "Oswald de Andrade's Cannibalist Manifesto" by Leslie Bary
> "Anthropophagic Subjectivity" by Suely Rolnik
> "Jenseits des Identitätsprinzips - Die Anthropophagieformel" von Suely Rolnik
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Francy Alys Filmabend
DVD Cover
mit den folgenden Filmen:
"Wide details: On the traces of Francis Alÿs"
by Julien Devaux (2006, 56’)
"Entretien avec Carlos Monsiváis"
by Francis Alÿs (2005, 22’)
"The Collector"
by Francis Alÿs (2006, 19’)
"Le temps du sommeil"
by Kitty Scott (2008, 9’)
"The Thief"
by Francis Alÿs (1999)22.06.2010
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesday
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Perfect Lovers, 1987
Der Lesetext "The Uses of Disorder: Joe Scanlan
on the art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres" kann unter
theorytuesdays@gmail.com bestellt werden.29.06.2010
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesday
Filmabend
Here Is Always Somewhere Else: The Life of Bas Jan Ader
The film "Here Is Always Somewhere Else" is the critically acclaimed documentary about enigmatic Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975), whose daring conceptual performances culminated in his mysterious disappearance at sea.06.07.2010
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesday
Danh Vo
Der Lesetext "Danh Vo in Conversation with Dominic Eichler" wird eine Woche vor der Sitzung hier zum Download verfügbar sein.13.07.2010
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Visiting Artist Series
Visiting Artist Talk - Chris Tourre (Chicago, USA)
Christopher Tourre is a Chicago-based artist and part
of Unit 2 Art and Design Collective. Tourre's work
explores community, spirituality, and the folkier aspects
of culture while highlighting participation and DIY culture
as critical components to his art-making. Tourre obtained
a BFA in Sculpture from The Pennsylvania State University
and an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at
Chicago. His work has been shown at various venues
including most recently the Museum of Contemporary
Art (Chicago), Co-Prosperity Sphere, Gallery 400, Eel Space
and The South Side Community Arts Center.
Unit 2 Website
http://www.unit2.us
Chris Tourre
19.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesday
What We Want Is Free
"Blows Against the Empire" by Ted Purves from the book
"What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent
Art"
07.09.2010
20.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Lawrence Weiner
Text: Excerpts from “Having Been Said: Writings & Interviews of Lawrence Weiner 1968-2003”
> Lawrence Weiner - Writings and Interviews
20.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Beat Wyss
Text 1: “Platzt der Kunst das Herz?” Gespräche Daniel Binswanger
Die Preise explodieren, für die internationale Geldelite ist Kunst der ultimative Luxus. Ein Gespräch über ein globales Phänomen.
Link: http://dasmagazin.ch/index.php/platzt-der-kunst-das-herz/
Text 2: "The Fracturing of Globalisation" by Julian Stallabrass
> "The Fracturing of Globalisation" by Julian Stallabrass
20.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
The Conspiracy of Art
Text: Excerpts from “The Conspiracy of Art” by Jean Baudrillard28.09.2010
20.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Visiting Artist Series: Jana Stepanova
Capture from the “United We Stay / Family map” series, 2007
Jana Stepanova, a Prague-based visual artist and designer, participated in a three-month residency in Zurich by a Swiss foundation ProHelvetia (June–August 2010). In her work, Jana often subverts social reality, control and system as well as commonly accepted values by releasing fake websites, magazines or creating fake identities. Recently, the Czech ministry of Labour and Social Affairs had filed criminal charges against her for internet project “rent-a-baby”.
The residency enabled Jana to expand her community-based long-term project United We Stay/Family Map with Swiss families. By engaging local families she explores the Norms and Normatives regulating the society. She started the project in the USA in 2004 and continued than in Germany, Belgium and Czech Republic.
In October 2010, she will present her project in the “Storytelling” show, curated by Dimitrina Sevova in the White Space/Zurich (Opening October 1st, 2010)
Link: http://www.rent-a-baby.cz
05.10.2010
20.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
The Regime of Visibility
Text: Excerpts from “The Regime of Visibility” by Camiel van Winkel19.10.2010
20.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
The Digital Folklore Reader
Text: Excerpts from "The Digital Folklore Reader" Edited by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied 26.10.2010
20.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Urs Fischer
Text: "The Age of Semi-Post-Postmodernism" by Ben Davis
Text: "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" by Fredric Jameson
> "The Age of Semi-Post-Postmodernism" by Ben Davis
> "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" by Fredric Jameson
20.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Visiting Artist Series: Manuel Hartmann
Buttersafe
"BERÜHRUNGEN – Jetzt beißen wir in den Kuchen"
Eine Buch-Hörbuch Arbeit zur Erfassung des Alltagsphänomens 'Schenken'.
Schenken ist Teil eines täglichen Miteinanders und wird möglicherweise gerade deshalb in den wenigsten Fällen hinterfragt. Befasst man sich bewusst mit diesem Phänomen, fällt auf, dass ein Geschenk zu machen sowie eines anzunehmen, viele Gesichter haben kann. Schenken ist Kommunikation. Es spiegelt Gefühle, Absichten und Wesensmerkmale von miteinander handelnden Personen wieder. Spricht man über das Schenken, spricht man gleichsam von Menschen und ihren Beziehungen.
Im Zuge von Gesprächen mit Personen über deren Geschenkerfahrungen und Interviews mit VertreterInnen der modernen Schenkforschung gilt es, das Wesen einer zeitgenössischen Auffassung von Schenken spürbar zu machen. Aus einer anfänglich banalen Fragestellung „Wie schenkt eigentlich mein Umfeld?“, eröffnen sich nach und nach Geschichten über das Geben und Nehmen, die unterhaltsam, berührend, aber auch unerwartet, irritierend sind. Es ist lustvoll vom Schenken zu erzählen und den preisgegebenen Geschichten zu lauschen. Sie handeln von Berührungen, die sich in romantischen, altruistischen Bildern des Schenkens sowie in kalkulierten, erwartungsträchtigen Gaben zeigen. Letztendlich ermöglicht das Zusammenführen gesammelter Erzählungen über das Schenken einen Streifzug durch Werte, Konventionen und Anschauungen unserer Zeit.
Visiting artist Manuel Hartmann beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Schenken seit 2004. Er lebt und arbeitet als freier Produzent in Wien.
Link: http://www.schenkepisoden.com09.11.2010
20.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Critical Issues In Public Art
Text: "Temporality and Public Art" by Patricia C. Phillips from the reader Critical Issues In Public Art
> "Temporality and Public Art" by Patricia C. Phillips
20.00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Gabriel Orozco "Breath On A Piano" (1993)
Text: "The Experience of Art as a Living Through of Language" by Kate Love from the reader "After Criticism: New Responses to Art & Performance" edited by Gavin Butt