York
University ñ Faculty of
Fine Arts
FACS 1900C 6.0
Arts and Ideas
LECTURE SCHEDULE
I will make every
effort to follow the syllabus as outlined, but reserve the right to make
scheduling changes when further discussion of a given topic is required or to
take advantage of unforeseen events and opportunities.
Web resources may be added throughout the term
to reflect studentsí interests.
Frameworks |
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Week 1 September 12 |
Introduction To do this week: - fill out an index card with your
name, contact information, your picture and thoughts about ëarts and ideasí
ñPLAY. Have fun. Fill the entire card. Bring it next week. |
Community event Wednesday |
International Lecture Series: Liam Gillick
One of the 2002 finalists for the prestigious Turner Prize, British artist Liam Gillick traverses the fields of architecture, design and information systems to create spaces designed for discussion, delay, neotiation and conciliation. He will discuss his diverse range of work and writing.
Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay West. Free to members. Non-members $15. Call (416) 973-4000 to reserve. (note: attendance not required as part of this course)
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Performing
interdisciplinarity: ideas, methods, examples
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Week 2 September 19 |
Michael Huxley
and Noel Witts ìIntroductionî Twentieth-Century Performance: The Case
for a new approach (Performance Reader)
Last date to enrol in Fall Term
and Fall/Winter Session courses without permission of the course instructor. |
Event of possible
interest Saturday 20 September, |
Artist's Talk: Jo“o Penalva
Portuguese-born, London-based artist Jo“o Penalva will introduce his work and discuss his narratives of translation, memory and imaginative misinterpretation. The Power Plant. Free with admission. |
Week 3 September 26 |
Robert Wilson: Interview |
Week 4 October 3rd |
Richard Foreman: How To Write a Play (in which I am really telling myself how, but if you are the right one I am telling you how, too) (Performance Reader)More on Richard Foreman here:
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Community event Wednesday 8 October, 7 pm Power Plant |
The Talking Creature
A participatory event examining the art of conversing with strangers in public, The Talking Creature explores this anxious dynamic with the conviction that unfettered and fearless conversation between strangers is fundamental to freedom. Presented by the theatre group Mammalian Diving Reflex. |
Week 5 October 10th |
Ken Hollings The
Solar Myth Approach: Sun Ra, Stockhausen, P-Funk, Hawkwind: the live
space ritualî (Undercurrents) |
Community event of interest The Power Plant. Free. Wednesday 15 October, 6:30 pm |
Curator's Tour: Philip Monk
Philip Monk, director of the Art gallery of York University and curator of Liam Gillick and Jo“o Penalva provides his expert perspective in a tour of these complex and evocative exhibitions.
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CREATIVE ENVIRONMENTS |
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Week 6 October 17th |
Avant-gardes THE FUTURIST MODEL "Acceleration is the one constant in our
experience of modernity. . . . Speed is not so much a product of our culture
as our culture is a product of speed," Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Photographers' Gallery
catalogue for the ëSpeedí show
Last date to enrol in Fall/Winter Session courses with permission of the course instructor.
lecture outline
available here |
Community event of interest The Power Plant. free with admission. Sunday |
p.o.v.: Kerri Sakamoto on Jo“o Penalva
Author of The Electrical Field and
the newly published One Hundred Million Hearts, Kerri Sakamoto will give
a point of
view talk on the themes of cross-cultural translation, unreliable narrators
and poetic memory in the work of Jo“o Penalva. |
Powerplant |
Concert
Tuesday October 21, noon Works by John Cage, performed by the University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble, Robin
Engelman, Director. |
Power Plant Wednesday |
The Church of Craft With
groups active in New York, Los Angeles, Stockholm and Montreal, The Church of
Craft is a non-denominational community built on creation and skill-sharing.
They aim to create an environment where any and all acts of making have value
to our humanness. This evening,
participants and passers-by will contribute individual elements to a
collective creation. |
Week 7 October 24th |
Dada and Surrealism
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Community Event Power Plant |
The Media Collective |
Week 8 October
31 |
Form and Function: The
Bauhaus experiment in Weimar Germany.
Walter Gropius, "The
Theory and Organization of The Bauhaus" (unfortunately this article
is no longer available online. Please read the above article instead)
suggested:
Field assignment
due at the beginning of your tutorial session.
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Community Event The Rivoli, 334 Queen St. W. Free. Tuesday 4 November, 8 pm |
Hubbub! The Power Plant's riveting prime time rumble at the Rivoli, Hubbub! is a variety show of creative people discussing new ideas and work bursting forth from the box of contemporary visual art. Presented in conjunction with the citywide soundtracks exhibition and Rodney Graham's Power Plant installation, this evening will focus on obsession, expression and transcendence in pop music. Music and video share the stage.
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Week 9 November 7 |
CAGE and Black Mountain College John Cage: Four Statements on the Dance Christoph Cox ìThe Jerrybuilt
Future: The Sonic Arts Union, ONCE Group and MEV's live electronicsî (Undercurrents)
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Community event:
Film
Jackman
Hall, AGO, free admission, call 416-968-film for information Re-play Programs at 5 locations |
Films
Presented in conjunction with Cinematheque Ontario
Wednesday November 12, 6:30 Location:
Jackman Hall, AGO The Independents ñ Programme 3 Michael Snow New York Eye and Ear Control , Kelly Egan, Breath and Bodies of Knowledge , Izabella
Pruska-Oldenhof, Her Carnal Longings , Stan
Brakhage, Passage through: A Ritual The programme presents five inspired examples of sound/image relationships in film. Michael Snow's classic New York Eye And Ear Control "contains illusions of distance, degrees, divisions of antipathies, polarities, likenesses, complements, desires" (Snow) and a soundtrack by a group of jazz musicians selected by Snow. Toronto filmmaker Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof's Her Carnal Longings is a visual meditation on human flesh and the medium of film itself. Kelly Egan's aesthetic makes use of collage on the surface of the strip of celluloid. With Breath she layers flowers on the image area and words from haiku poems directly onto the optical track. Bodies Of Knowledge bears a loose metrical form; its textured sepia-toned imagery of nudes is accompanied by percussive sound created by the collage of names placed directly onto the optical soundtrack area. The programme concludes with the glorious Passage Through: A Ritual , a rare example of a sound film by Stan Brakhage. The film is set to Philip Corner's "Through the Mysterious Barricade, Lumen 1 (after F. Couperin)" which, in turn, was inspired by Brakhage's The Riddle Of Lumen .
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Week 10 November 14 |
The 1950s ñ Warhol
and the Beats |
Week 11 November 21 |
Happenings ñ early 60s Allan Kaprow: Assemblages, Environments and Happenings (Performance
Reader) Nouvelles edition polaires
nepe; Montreal (kit) |
Week 12 November 28 ñ last class of the term |
Collaborative group project
due (first group)ñ the day will be set aside for you to display
and share your work. Please be available
for the entire class time. |
Last day of undergraduate
classes is December 2nd. The midterm exam will be
scheduled during the formal examination period December 4-19th.
The exact date, time and
location TBA. |
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IDEAS INTO ART |
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Week 13 January 9th |
Place
View: Art 21 Place
"America is a country made of places," writes Thelma Golden in her essay for the Art:21 Companion Book. "Not just the places marked by road signs and maps, but also the less tangible but no less meaningful places forged in the crucible of memory, longing and desire. 'America' is the strange, beautiful mosaic of these places, reflecting the roots of its citizens, their origins as well as their wanderings." This episode of Art:21 explores these roots through the work of six artists. Shot on location in New York City, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, San Juan, and Bilbao, Spain.
no reading |
Week 14 January 16 |
Automation and automata
ìYet at the same
time --human-computer
interaction would profoundly affect aesthetics, leading artists to embrace
collaborative and interactive modes of experience. Not just interdisciplinary
art works, but collaborations between artists, philosophers, scientistsÖ.î Peter Wollin ìModern Times: Cinema/Americanism/The
Robotî In P. Wollin Raiding
the icebox London.NY: Verso, 1993 (kit) Stellarc ìInterviewî (Performance
Reader) David Toop ìHumans, Are They
Really Necessary?: Sound art, automata, musical sculptureî (Undercurrents) view: Metropolis or Modern Times
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Week 15 January 23 |
Collagist practices of knowledge
Listen: Plunderphonics |
Week 16 January 30 |
Interdisciplinary
spaces bibliography due |
Week 17 February 6th |
Play Beatriz Colomina ìReflection
on the Eames Houseî In A. Coles and
A. Defert (eds.)
The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity
(dis-de-ex- volume 2) /Time Rob Young ìWorship The Glitch:
Digital music, electronic disturbanceî (Undercurrents)
Last date to drop a Fall/Winter
Session course without receiving a grade.
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Last
day to drop F/W courses is February 6th |
Week 18 February 13th |
(this is a difficult
article ñ make time for it). Trisha Brown: Trisha Brown: an Interview (Performance Reader)
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Reading week is February
16-20th. |
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IDENTITIES |
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Week 19 February 27th |
Bodies
Susan Leigh
Foster: ìChoreographing Historyî (Performance
Reader) View: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN: THE HOTTENTOT VENUS
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Week 20 March5th |
Gaze and display ******CHANGE*******Thelma
Golden ìMy Brotherî in
T. Golden (ed.) Black Male : Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary
American Art NY: Whitney Museum, 1994.
(kit) Interdisciplinary research paper/critical work paper/project due |
Week 21 March 12th |
Collaborative Projects working group day ****
CHANGE - NO LONGER REQUIRED**** Peter Wollin ìInto the Future: Tourism, Language
and Artî In P. Wollin Raiding
the Icebox London.NY: Verso, 1993 |
Week 22 March 19th |
Gender
Carson, Fiona. ìFeminist debate and Fine Art practicesî in |
Community event AGO |
Retrospective of Rodney Graham's work, including The
Phonokinetoscope , at the Art Gallery
of Ontario, opening
March 24 through June 20, 2004. The exhibition, Rodney Graham: A Little Thought,
features more than 25 works, following
the evolution of Graham's film, video and sound pieces from 1976 to the
present. Props, scripts and notes related to the films, as well as selected
multiples and audio works,
complete the survey. This exhibition is co-organized by the Art
Gallery of Ontario,
the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles. < http://www.thepowerplant.org/exhibitions.html> |
Week 24 March 26th |
Collaborative group project
due (second group of students)ñ the day will be set aside for you
to display and share your work.
Please be available for the entire class time. |
Week 25 April 2nd
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Review class |
Study period before exams; April
3-13th. The final exam
will be scheduled during the formal examination period ñ date, time and
location TBA. |