Commerce

Art

Work

Tehching Hsieh

Seth Siegelaub

Kelly Mark

Lee Lozano

Career

Goran Trbuljak

Carey Young

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Ron Terada

Selling Oneself

Maurizio Cattelan

Garry Neill Kennedy

Andrea Fraser

Erwin Wurm

Sales

Allen Ruppersberg

Martha Rosler

Yves Klein

Edwar Kienholz

Economy

Making a Living

Jens Haaning

Ben Kinmont

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge

Identity

Martha Wilson

Pierre Huyghe & Philippe Parreno

Theodore Wan

Mammalian Diving Reflex

Discourse

N.E. Thing Co. Ltd.

Lee Lozano

Rainer Ganahl

Clegg & Guttmann

Disruptions

Teresa Margolles

etoy.CORPORATION

Janice Kerbel

Chris Burden

Goods

Stuff

Lin Yilin

Rachel Whiteread

Michael Landy

Simon Starling

Land

Edward Poitras

Hans Haacke

Maria Eichhorn

Gordon Matta-Clark

Bodies

Keith Obadike

Paul Wong

Toxic Titties

Santiago Sierra

Food

Life of a Craphead

Wim Delvoye

Mary Kelly

Victor Grippo

Luis Jacob: "Commerce by Artists"

artists

Chris Marker

Gorgomancy

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Legacy of the Owl

Legacy of the Owl

Symposium, or Accepted Ideas

Florentine Camarata

Olympics, or Imaginary Greece

Immemory

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Quotes

James Benning

Twelve People

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Julie Ault, "Freedom Club"

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Two Cabins

Info

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Installation view (Berlin)

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Thoreau, "Solitude"

Thoreau, "Solitude"

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Kaczynski, "Industrial Society and Its Future"

Kaczynski, "Industrial Society and Its Future"

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Dick Hebdige "After Benning, after Math: 12, 13 and counting...."

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events

"Mark Lombardi - Kunst und Konspiration"
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012, 18:00
Acud Berlin
Veteranenstr. 21
10119 Berlin

Michael Pisaro, Transparent City (2)
Mon, Apr. 16th, 21h
Naherholung Sternchen: Berolinastr 7
performed by Konzert Minimal

Quentin Meillassoux:
Thur, Apr. 19th, 19h
"Iteration and repetition:
Ontology of the meaningless sign"
Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Friday, Apr. 20th, 11 - 14h
Workshop Series:
"Contemporary Materialism,
Realism, and Metaphysics"
Altensteinstr. 2-4

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INSTITUT FÜR RAUMEXPERIMENTE:
Wed, Apr 25th, 18:00
"GLASAUGE"

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Ray Brassier:
Fri, May 4th, 19h
"That which is not"
Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Workshop: Ray Brassier
Fri, May 4th, 11 - 14
“Representation and Picturing”
Altensteinstr. 2-4

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Movie at my place: May 22nd, 7PM - 11PM
Mehringdamm 60 "Kervezee"
Chris Marker, "Le fond de l'air est rouge"

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Here's what to read each week. Everyone should also post a weekly response to our blog-map. You can post links, event info or you can post content of your own, as long as there's enough (maybe a few things) to make a small in-class presentation out of it. How it branches out is up to you. It can be related to something recent, or it can connect us back to a previous topic. Maybe it's more of a free-floating idea.

Week 12 (last class): "Cinema in the Hands of the People: Chris Marker, the Medvedkin Group, and the Potential of Militant Film" (Trevor Stark)

Week 11: “We Need a Popular Discipline”- Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of the Negative (Badiou inteview), and (optionally) ''Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open'' (David Foster Wallace).

No class this week, July 2nd

Week 10: Haben und Brauchen Manifesto, and Art in Defense of Democracy (Jonas Staal)

Week 9: David Graeber, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations"

Week 8: Maggie Nelson, "The Art of Cruelty", chapters 1 & 2

Week 7: Badiou's talk on his ''15 These on Contemporary Art'', and as an option, ''Only One World''

Week 6: Pisaro Interview, and his paper, "Eleven Theses on the State of New Music"

Week 5: Dan Graham Conversation Series

Week 4: Badiou, "May 68" & "This Crisis is the Spectacle" (note, I didn't include part 2)
"Commerce by Artists" by Luis Jacob

Week 3: Rancière, "Mallarmé", chapters 1 - 2

Week 2: Berger, "Why look at Animals?"
Ault, "Freedom Club" (re: Benning)

Week 1: Baudrillard, Intelligence of Evil, Chapters 1 and 2, plus the chapter ''Contemporary Art: Art Contemporary with Itself.''
*Bonus: Groys, Going Public, "Comrades of Time"
**Alternative: Benning, start with "Twelve People"

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readings

Cinema in the Hands of the People: Chris Marker, the Medvedkin Group, and the Potential of Militant Film (Trevor Stark)

David Foster Wallace

Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open

Haben und Brauchen

Jonas Staal: Art in Defense of Democracy

Maggie Nelson

The Art of Cruelty: chapters 1 & 2

Michael Pisaro

Interview with MP

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"Eleven Theses on the State of New Music"

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Dan Graham: Conversation Series (with Hans Ulrich Obrist)

Pavilion in Berlin

John Berger

why look at animals

Boris Groys

going public

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Jean Baudrillard

the intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact

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Alain Badiou

“We Need a Popular Discipline”- Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of the Negative

Only One World

Talk about ''Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art''

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The actual 15 theses (English and French)

May '68 Revisited, 40 Years On

This Crisis Is the Spectacle: Where Is the Real?

David Graeber

A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations

Jacques Rancière

mallarmé

chapters 1 - 2

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chapter 3

chapter 4

Quentin Meillassoux

Iteration and repetition:
Ontology of the meaningless sign