ART 582 MFA Graduate Seminar II: Writing & Research/Artists Who Write Schedule • F09 • boasp@pdx.

• boasp@pdx.edu (YR 1 assignments; YR 2 assignments; all) 1/24

date topic class activities reading work for next class

w1 Introduction & syllabus Resources Perec, “The Page” for 1/14
1/7 Writing as exploration Smthson, “Language to Be Looked At and/or Things to Be Read” Research 2 Phaidon CAS (all)
Monograph Project Laundry List (Y2)

w2 Form as content/content Readers’ discussion Barthes, “From Work to Text” for 1/21
1/14 as form Resources MP: draft plan (all)
Image/web pres MFA Statement Outline (Y2)

w3 The Limitis of Legibility Readers’ discussion Blanchot, “The Most Profound Question” for 1/28
1/21 Infinite Conversation Phaidon summaries Byars, “Talk at NSCAD: World Question Center” MP: draft plan (YR1)
Raqs Media Collective, Stammer, Mumble, Sweat, Scrawl, and Tic” Research interview models (all)
Y2 work on PS Draft

w4 “Ask Somebody Else Readers’ discussion Weiss, “Language in the Vicinity of Art” for 2/4
1/28 Something Else” MP round robin Allen, “Against Criticism: The Artist Interview in Avalanche” 1st draft interview/Qs due (all)
Anastas, “A Response” Y2 research MP “Related Text”
+ work on PS Draft

w5 Artists on artists Readers’ response Gillick, “Now I See: One Work by Anri Sala” for 2/11
2/4 MP round robin Gillick/Tirivanijah, “From a Truncated Correspondence (Simile: Belly Laugh)” 1 pg essay: yr choice (3 copies)
08 samples (YR 1) Chan, “Fearless Symmetry”; Hirschhorn, “Eternal Flame” Humphrey, “Amy + continue work on MFA PS
PS round robin (YR 2) Sillman”; Kushner, “William Eggleston” Interview Essay

w6 Language as material I Readers’ response for 2/18

2/11 Guest Lecturer: Editing workshop Manifesto, Questionnaire, FAQ
Zapoura Calvert or Lexicon (3 copies)
+ continue work on MFA PS
Interview Essay
w7 Language as material II: Readers’ response Situationist International, “Response to Questionnaire” for 2/25
2/18 manifestos, polemics, Group share writing Navarro, “Geometric Retroabstraction” 1 pg anecdote (3 copies)
FAQs Raqs Media Collective, “A Concise Lexicon of/for The Digital” Y2 work on PS; excerpt for MP
Y1 work on Interview & Essay
w8 Language as material III Readers’ response Dean, “Fernsehturm” for 3/4
2/25 Telling stories Group share writing Antin, “The Man without a World” (excerpt) MP Focus Essay (Y1)
Nauman, “Good Boy Bad Boy” Interview (all)
Mullican, “Untitled” Proj Statement Draft (Y2)
Mir, ““Living & Loving #2—The Biography of Zoe Stillpass”

w9 Small group review MP Layout w/images (all)

3/4 Work session

w10 Final Presentations Due: Monograph Project pdf

3/11 MFA Project Stmt Drafts
wk11 Final Presentations
TBA
ART 582 Course Reading List • Boas W09

Georges Perec, “The Page,” Species of Spaces on Other Pieces, 9-15 pdf
Robert Smthson, “Language to Be Looked At and/or Things to Be Read,” Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, 61 pdf

Roland Barthes, “From Work to Text,” Image, Music, Text 155-164 pdf (e-reserve)

Maurice Blanchot, “The Most Profound Question,” The Infinite Conversation 11-24 pdf (e-reserve)
James Lee Byars, “Talk at NSCAD: World Question Center,” Six Years: The Dematerialization… 163-4 pdf (e-reserve)
Raqs Media Collective, “Stammer, Mumble, Sweat, Scrawl, and Tic” http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/14

Weiss, Jeffrey, “Language in the vicinity of art: artists writings 1960-1975,” Artforum 2004 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_10_42/ai_n6232012
Allen, “Against Criticism: The Artist Interview in Avalanche,” Art Journal 64 no3 F2005 pdf (e-reserve folder week of 1/26)
Anastas, “A Response,” Art Journal 64 no3 F2005 pdf (e-reserve folder week of 1/26)

Gillick, “Now I See: One Work by Anri Sala” Liam Gillick Proxemics: Selected Writings (1988-2006), 271-6 pdf
Gillick & Tirivanijah, “From a Truncated Correspondence (Simile: Belly Laugh),” Liam Gillick Proxemics: Selected Writings (1988-2006), 181-5 pdf
Chan, “Fearless Symmetry,” Artforum March 2007 260-1 pdf
Thomas Hirschhorn, “Eternal Flame” Artforum March 2007 268 pdf
David Humphrey, “Amy Sillman” Artists on Artists, BOMB http://www.bombsite.com/issues/72/articles/2316
Rachel Kushner, “William Eggleston” Artists on Artists BOMB http://www.bombsite.com/issues/76/articles/2405

from Art & Social Change: A Critical Reader 2007, pdfs:

Situationist International, “Response to Questionnaire From the Center for Socio-Experimental Art,” 125-9
Navarro, “Geometric Retroabstraction,” 260-9
Raqs Media Collective, “A Concise Lexicon of/for The Digital Commons,” 340-9

Tacita Dean, “Fernsehturm (Backwards into the Future),” Filmworks, 90-1 pdf (e-reserve)
Antin, excerpt from screenplay, The Man without a World pdf (e-reserve)
Nauman, “Good Boy Bad Boy,” Please Pay Attention Please, 94-95 pdf (e-reserve)
Mullican, “Untitled” Blasted Allegories pdf (e-reserve)
Aleksandra Mir, “Living & Loving #2—The Biography of Zoe Stillpass” http://www.aleksandramir.info/pdfs/pdf_index.html

optional (+ additional examples, articles and resources on artistswhowrite blog)

Temporary Services, "Do-It-Yourself Interview" www.temporaryservices.org pdf (e-reserve)
Paul Chan and Marizio Cattelan Interview, “Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind,” FlashArtonline.com, 262 Oct 08
http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=intervista_det&id_art=198&det=ok&title=PAUL-CHAN
Griffin, “Method Acting: The Artist-Interviewer Conversation,” Art Journal 64 no3 F2005 pdf (e-reserve)
Great Bear Pamphlets: Something Else Press, http://www.ubu.com/historical/gb/index.html: Kaprow, “Untitled Essay and Other Works”; Knowles, “by Alison
Knowles”; Higgins, “A Book About Love & Death”