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counter aesthetics: politics in art graduate studio seminar

27 April 2012

stephen garrett dewyer

248-766-8556

[email protected]

intent

Through weekly seminars, the course counter aesthetics: politics in art seeks to address issues

relating to the politics in art. Although the course is a studio seminar, students are expected to

read in addition to present work for critique. The goal of counter aesthetics is to provide a

forum for the education of graduate students in art by translating work through differing and

different positions in order to make work in response to politics.

conceptual framework

While artists have been deploying a variety of media to alter perceptions of the sensible in

aesthetics, not all art critiques such perceptions. counter aesthetics: politics in art looks at how

art may alter the political by altering aesthetic perceptions of the sensible. counter aesthetics

looks at a variety of media including digital processes to broaden the critical framework within

which an art practice might become understood. Readings in critical theory including

transnational, post-colonial, neocolonial and gendered subjects supplement discussions on art, art

history and theory. This course looks at how artists use art to make sensible the limits of

dominant aesthetics by giving counter aesthetics.

assignments

Weeks 2 – 9 are presentations and discussions related to situating art. Students are expected to

read and write a response to at least one of the assigned texts for each class.

During weeks 11 – 16, each student is expected to present a work for a group critique. Students

may use suggested readings during weeks 8 – 14 in the consideration of their work.

Weeks 10, 17 and, tentatively, 18 are individual sessions.

Students are expected to participate in discussions and critiques.

agenda

*suggested

week

1. introductions

a. stephen garrett dewyer presents his work

b. digital camera and video equipment demonstration

2. discussion: aesthetics, politics, critique and support

a. readings

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i. “The Aesthetic Revolution and Its Outcomes”

(http://www.stephengdewyer.info/PDF%20files/Ranciere,_Jacques_The_

Aesthetic_Revolution_and_Its_Outcomes_Dissensus.pdf. 115 – 131)

ii. “The Paradoxes of Political Art”

(http://www.stephengdewyer.info/PDF%20files/Ranciere,_Jacques_The_P

aradoxes_of_Political_Art_Dissensus.pdf. 134 – 151), “The Politics of

Literature”

(http://www.stephengdewyer.info/PDF%20files/Ranciere,_Jacques_The_P

olitics_of_Literature_Dissensus.pdf. 152 – 168)

iii. “The Monument and Its Confidences; of Deleuze and Art’s Capacity for

‘Resistance’”

(http://www.stephengdewyer.info/PDF%20files/Ranciere,_Jacques_The_

Monument_and_Its_Confidences,_or_Deleuze_and_Arts_Capcity_of_Res

istance_Dissensus.pdf. 169 – 183) in Rancière, Jacques. Dissensus: On

Politics and Aesthetics. Edition and translation by Steven Corcoran.

Continuum International Publishing Group: London, U.K. and New York,

NY. 2010: pp. 115 – 183

iv. “The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics” in Rancière, Jacques.

Aesthetics and Its Discontents. Translation by Steven Corcoran. Polity

Press: Cambridge, U.K. and Malden, MA. 2009: pp. 109 – 132.

http://www.stephengdewyer.info/PDF%20files/Ranciere,_Jacques_Aesthe

tic_Separation,_Aesthetic_Community_from_The_Emancipated_Spectato

r.pdf

3. presentation: the subaltern in art: inappropriately appropriating space

a. artists

i. no artists

b. readings

i. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “They the people: Problems of alter-

globalization.” Radical Philosophy. Issue 157. September/October 2009

ii. “Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular” in Spivak,

Gayatri Chakravorty. An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization.

Harvard University Press: Combridge, MA and London, U.K. 2012: pp.

351 – 371.

http://www.stephengdewyer.info/Spivak,_Gayatri_Scattered_Speculations

_on_the_Subaltern_and_the_Popular_from_An_Aesthetic_Education_in_t

he_Era_of_Globalization.pdf

4. presentation: minimalism and post-minimalism: the maintenance of U.S. hegemony in art

a. artists

i. Carl Andre, Eva Hesse, Damien Hirst, Donald Judd, Anish Kapoor, Dan

Flavin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mona Hatoum, Agnes Martin, John

McCracken, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra,

Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Richard Tuttle and Rachel Whiteread

b. readings

i. Alberro. “The Turn of the Screw: Daniel Buren, Dan Flavin, and the Sixth

Guggenheim International Exhibition”

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ii. Cason, Juli. “Two Walls: 1981.” Surface Tension: Problematics of Site. Edition

by Ken Ehrlich and Brandon LaBelle: pp. 81 – 102

http://stephengdewyer.com/PDF%20files/Juli_Carson_Two_Walls_1989_pp_81-

102.pdf iii. Graw and Moltke. “Just Being Doesn’t Amount to Anything (Some

Themes in Bruce Nauman’s Work)”

iv. Pincus-Witten, Robert. "Eva Hesse: Post-Minimalism into Sublime."

Artforum. November 1971

5. presentation: colonialism, post-colonialism and neo-colonialism

a. artists

i. Nanna Debois Buhl, Brendan Fernandes, Teresa Margoles and Walid Raad

b. readings

i. Bhabha. “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse.”

http://stephengdewyer.com/PDF%20files/Bhabha,%20Homi%20K_Of%20

Mimicry%20and%20Man_The%20Ambivalence%20of%20Colonial%20D

iscourse_October_Vol%2028_Spring_1984.pdf

ii. Charles. “Imaginative mislocation: Hiroshima’s Genbaku Dome, ground

zero of the twentieth century”

iii. Spivak. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the

Vanishing Present

iv. Margolles, Teresa. “Santiago Sierra.” BOMB. issue 86. Winter 2004:

http://bombsite.com/issues/86/articles/2606

6. presentation: the neoliberalization of economies as an instrument of globalization: travel

and accumulation in art

a. artists

i. Liam Gillick, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Laura Trujillo Muñoz and Raqs

Media Collective

b. readings i. Gillick, Liam excerpt from an interview with Heinz Norbert Jocks. Frst published

2009. http://www.liamgillick.info/home/texts/interview-2009

ii. “Culture Now: Liam Gillick in conversation with JJ Charlesworth.” 8 October

2012. ICA London. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD6s2oQCXYQ

iii. “Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching” in

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization.

Harvard University Press: Combridge, MA and London, U.K. 2012: pp. 301 –

315.

http://www.stephengdewyer.info/Ethics_and_Politics_in_Tagore,_Coetzee,_and_

Certain_Scenes_of_Teaching_Spivak,_Gayatri_An_Aesthetic_Education_in_the_

Era_of_Globalization_Harvard_University_Press_2012.pdf

iv. "Harlem" from Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. An Aesthetic Education in the Era

of Globalization. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA and London, U.K.

2012: pp. 399 - 428.

http://www.stephengdewyer.info/Spivak,_Gayatri_Harlem_from_An_Aesthetic_E

ducation_in_the_Era_of_Globalization.pdf

v. "Tracing the Skin of the Day" from Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. An Aesthetic

Education in the Era of Globalization. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA

and London, U.K. 2012: pp. 500 - 508.

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http://stephengdewyer.info/PDF%20files/Spivak,_Gayatri_Tracing_the_Skin_of_

Day_An_Aesthetic_Education_in_the_Era_of_Globalization.pdf vi. Amor, Enwezor, Minglu, Ho, Mercer and Rogoff. “Liminalities:

Discussions on the Global and the Local”

7. presentation: shifting cities: the diaspora in cosmopolitanism and vice versa

a. artists

i. Daniel Bozhkov, Mina Cheon, Jane Jin Kaisen, Mike Kelly, Gordon

Matta-Clark, amitis motevalli, Michael Rakowitz, Georgia Sagri, Anri

Sala, mounir al solh, Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Hector Zamora

b. readings/viewings

i. Kitnick. “Bad Memory: Interview with Georgia Sagri”

ii. Rakowitz. “Three Projects, Maybe Four - Michael Rakowitz.”

http://youtu.be/5zmc_tIhOGo

iii. Camacho. “Migrant Modernisms: Racialized Development under the

Bracero Program”

8. presentation: interventions

a. artists

i. Dennis Adams, Francis Alÿs, Michael Asher, Sophie Calle, David

Hammons, Leopold Kessler, Liz Magic Lazer, Jill Magid, Miles Huston,

Teresa Margolles and Krzysztof Wodiczko

b. readings

i. Buchloh, Graw and Knight. “Who’s afraid of JK”

ii. Bishop, Claire, Carol Becker, Teddy Cruz, Maria Lind, Brian Holmes,

Shannon Jackson, Ann Pasternak and Nato Thompson. Living as Form:

Socially Engaged Art from 1991 – 2011. Edited by Nato Thompson. MIT

Press, 2012

9. presentation: artist collectives

a. groups/organizations

i. Audio Visual Arts (AVA), Cave Gallery, Claire Fontaine, Design 99,

North End Studios, Orchard, Powerhouse Productions, Real Fine Arts and

WochenKlausur

b. Readings

i. Graw, Isabelle. “Social Realism: Isabelle Graw on the art of Jana Euler.”

Artforum. Volume 51. Issue 3. November 2012: pp. 234 – 241.

http://stephengdewyer.com/PDF%20files/Graw,_Isabelle,_Social_Realism-

Isabelle_Graw_on_the_art_of_Jana_Euler_Artforum_Volume_51_Number

_3_November_2012_pp_234-231.pdf

ii. Collectivism after Modernism: the Art of Social Imagination after 1945.

Edition by Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette. University of Minnesota

Press: Minneapolis, MN and London, U.K. 2007.

10. individual sessions (format suggestions: studio visit, meeting)

11. group critiques

12. group critiques

13. group critiques

14. group critiques

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15. group critiques

16. group critiques

17. individual sessions (format suggestions: studio visit, meeting)

18. (tentative) individual sessions (format suggestions: studio visit, meeting)

readings

Alberro, Alexander and Stimson, Blake (eds.). Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists'

Writings. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 2009

Alberro, Alexander. “The Turn of the Screw: Daniel Buren, Dan Flavin, and the Sixth

Guggenheim International Exhibition.” October. Volume 80. Spring, 1997

Amor, Mónica, Okwui Enwezor, Gao Minglu, Oscar Ho, Kobena Mercer, Irit Rogoff.

“Liminalities: Discussions on the Global and the Local.” Art Journal. Volume 57.

Number 4. Winter 1998: pp. 28-49

Bhabha, Homi K. “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse.” October.

Volume 28. Discipleship: A Special Issue on Psychoanalysis. Spring 1984: pp. 125 –

133

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. Routledge Classics: New York and London., 2004

Bishop, Claire, Carol Becker, Teddy Cruz, Maria Lind, Brian Holmes, Shannon Jackson, Ann

Pasternak and Nato Thompson. Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991 – 2011.

Edited by Nato Thompson. MIT Press, 2012.Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. “Conceptual Art

1962 – 1969: From the Aesthetics of Administration to the Critique of Institutions.”

October. Volume 55. Winter, 1990: pp. 105-143

Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. , Graw, Isabelle, Knight, John. “Who’s afraid of JK.” Texte zur Kunst.

n° 59, Berlin, Germany

Camacho, Alicia. “Migrant Modernisms: Racialized Development under the Bracero Program.”

Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the US-Mexico Borderlands. NYU Press.

2008: pp. 62-111

Cason, Juli. “Two Walls: 1981.” Surface Tension: Problematics of Site. Edition by Ken Ehrlich and

Brandon LaBelle: pp. 81 – 102

http://stephengdewyer.com/PDF%20files/Juli_Carson_Two_Walls_1989_pp_81-102.pdf

Charles, Matthew. “Imaginative mislocation: Hiroshima’s Genbaku Dome, ground zero of the

twentieth century.” Radical Philosophy. Issue 162. July/August 2010

Coggins, David. “Stranger than Fiction: an interview with Daniel Bozhkov.” ArtNet.

<http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/coggins/daniel-bozhkov3-31-10.asp>

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Collectivism after Modernism: the Art of Social Imagination after 1945. Edition by Blake

Stimson and Gregory Sholette. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, MN and

London, U.K. 2007.

Crimp, Douglas and Louise Lawler. “Prominence Given, Authority Taken.” Grey Room. Number

4. Summer, 2001

Derrida, Jacques. Dissemination. Translation and introduction by Barbara Johnson. The

University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL. 1981

Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology. Translated and introduced by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore,MD and London, U.K. 1997

Dudley, Jennifer. “Interview with Daniel Bozhkov.” Highlights.

<http://thehighlights.org/wp/interview-with-daniel-bozhkov>

Fraser, Andrea. "From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique." Artforum.

September, 2005. Issue 44. Number 1: pp. 278–283

Fraser, Andrea. “in and out of place” (1985). Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists'

Writings. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 2009.

Gillick, Liam excerpt from an interview with Heinz Norbert Jocks. Frst published 2009.

http://www.liamgillick.info/home/texts/interview-2009

Gillick, Liam interview with JJ Charlesworth. ICA London. 8 October 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD6s2oQCXYQ

Graw, Isabelle. “Social Realism: Isabelle Graw on the art of Jana Euler.” Artforum. Volume 51.

Issue 3. November 2012: pp. 234 – 241.

http://stephengdewyer.com/PDF%20files/Graw,_Isabelle,_Social_Realism-

Isabelle_Graw_on_the_art_of_Jana_Euler_Artforum_Volume_51_Number_3_November

_2012_pp_234-231.pdf

Graw, Isabelle and Dorothea von Moltke. “Just Being Doesn’t Amount to Anything (Some

Themes in Bruce Nauman’s Work).” October. Volume 74 (Autumn, 1995)

Kitnick, Alex. “Bad Memory: Interview with Georgia Sagri.” Idiom Magazine. 27 April 2011

<http://idiommag.com/2011/04/bad-memory-interview-with-georgia-sagri/>

Leffingwell, Edward. “The “Empty” Biennial.” Art in America. Volume 97. Issue 3: March 2009: p. 59-

64

Margolles, Teresa. “Santiago Sierra.” BOMB. issue 86. Winter 2004:

http://bombsite.com/issues/86/articles/2606

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Marker, Chris. “The Last Bolshevik: Reminiscences of Alexander Ivanovich.” CINEASTE. Fall,

2008: pp. 12-13

Moallem, Minoo. “The Civic Body and the Order of the Visible.” Between Warrior Brother and

Veiled Sister. University of California Press. 2005

Rakowitz, Michael. “Three Projects, Maybe Rour - Michael Rakowitz.” The Harvard Graduate

School of Design. 27 September 2011.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zmc_tIhOGo>

Rancière, Jacques. Aesthetics and Its Discontents. Polity. 2009

Rancière, Jacques. Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics. Continuum: London & New York.

2010

Rancière, Jacques. The Emancipated Spectator. Verso: London and New York. 2009

Rancière, Jacques. The Future of the Image. Verso: London and New York. 2009

Rancière, Jacques. The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation.

Translated and introduced by Kristin Ross. Stanford University Press: Stanford,

California. 1991

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the

Vanishing Present. Harvard University Press: Boston, MA. 1999

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. Harvard University

Press: Cambridge, MA and London, U.K. 2012

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “They the people: Problems of alter-globalization.” Radical

Philosophy. Issue 157. September/October 2009