Events: Seminar

Taught by Professors Noah Simblist and Charissa Terranova, Collecting & Collectivity: Objects, Community and the Avant-garde is an interdisciplinary graduate seminar on contemporary art taught in the fall semester 2007. Students from studio art and art history will enroll in the course in order to question the role of the market place and social activism within current art practices. Modeling their voice after six specific publishing venues, students will write six short review essays that engage exhibition sites in DFW. Then, as a capstone assignment, the students will be divided into three groups. Each will make a performance or installation within the public space of DFW based on a manifesto written by the group. Readings include Karl Marx, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Peter Burger, Johanna Druker, Susan Stewart, Jean Baudrillard, WJT Mitchell, Jacques Ranciere, Nicolas Bourriaud, Clarie Bishop, Blake Stimson, and Gregory Sholette.

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