syllabus
ELSEWHERE ARTIST COLLABORATIVE
ART EVERYWHERE SYLLABUS
THURSDAYS 4:30-6:30pm
September 10th to October 29th 2009
Week 1: September 10th
ART CONCEPT: WELCOME TO ELSEWHERE. Tour of the museum. Curriculum overview through related museum and collective themes. What is public art, community art, site-specific art?
LEADERSHIP CONCEPT: What is a non-profit? Models for public art production, funding ideas, artistic systems in the public sphere.
EXERCISE: Collecting as practice, performance, and public game
HMWK: Visit to the Weatherspoon Exhibit, “Our Subject is You”
Week 2: September 17th
ART CONCEPT: Performative Community Practice/ Public Art/ Social Practice
LEADERSHIP CONCEPT: Technology, Activism and Aesthetic Community Building
WORKS TO REVIEW: Richard Serra Tilted Arc 1981, Barbara Kruger, Michael Townsend, Harold Fletcher, Group Material, Yes Men!, Temporary Services
EXERCISE: Public Art Walk
HMWK: Read Grapefruits, Yoko Ono
Week 3: September 24th
ART CONCEPT: Andy Warhol and Fluxus Happenings
LEADERSHIP CONCEPT: Community as Collective/ Feedback loops/ Laughter as approach
WORKS TO REVIEW: Robert Rauschenberg Bed, 1955, Jasper Johns: Targets with Plaster Casts, 1955, Skin with O’Hara Poem, 1963-1965, Andy Warhol Sleep, 1963, Claus Oldenburg’s Store 1961, Black Mountain College Happenings, Vexations (John Cage), Emmett Williams Counting Songs
EXERCISE: Factory Theater game, help with front window installation
Week 4: October 1st
ART CONCEPT: Graffiti, Murals, and Architecture
LEADERSHIP CONCEPT: Public and Private Spaces for Community Interaction
WORKS TO REVIEW: Samo (Jean-Michel Basquait), Keith Harring, Michael De Feo, Shepard Fairey, Dan Witz, Banksy, Falle, Kwest, Adam Neate, ONG Crew, Visual Narcotics (possible film resources: Downtown 81, Style Wars, Wild Style)
EXERCISE: Ephemeral marking and temporary homes
Friday October 2nd: Elsewhere in Hamburger Square for Mural Project
Week 5: October 8th
ART CONCEPT: Land Art and Psychogeography/ Situationism
LEADERSHIP CONCEPT: Environment, Location, and Action
WORKS TO REVIEW: Alan Sonfist Time Landscape, conceived 1965/planted 1978, Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty, 1970, Andy Goldsworthy, Daniel Buren Untitled, 1968, Gordon Matta Clark Splitting, 1974 and Food (co-operatively owned restaurant) 1971
EXERCISE: Video Mapping downtown/ Southside
Week 6: October 15th
ART CONCEPT: Museum, Festivals, and Public Sculptures/ Institutional Critiques
LEADERSHIP CONCEPT: Representing Cultures and Individuals
WORKS TO REVIEW: Fred Wilson, Marcel Broodthaers Department of Eagles 1972, Hans Haacke controversy,
EXERCISE: History Tour, natural and unnatural histories
Week 7: October 22rd
ART CONCEPT: the Everyday
LEADERSHIP CONCEPT: The Ethics of Everyday Life
WORKS TO REVIEW: Mary Kelly Post-Partum Document 1973-1979, Andrea Zittel, Sophie Calle
EXERCISE: Public Food Art
Week 8: October 29st
Follow-up, reflection, focused work for final show and preparations for Trees Collaboration
Final Opening Event “Dead Writers Convention”: Friday November 30th at Elsewhere
TEXTS WILL INCLUDE
Lucy Lippard, The Lure of the Local
Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another, Site Specific Art and Locational Identity
Michel DeCerteau, The Practice of Everyday Life
George Perec, Species of Spaces
Selected works from Grasping the Museum, edited by Donald Preziosi
Marcel Duchamp, “The Great Trouble With Art in This Country,”
Yoko Ono, Grapefruits
