This course/reading group will take place twice and on two different days (see below for days and times). For the first meeting we will converge in(side) one space of the Serra's "Symmetry" in which we will perform a close reading of and discuss Miwon Kwon's essay-cum-chapter "One Place After Another" and a brief section from Fredrick Jameson's The Logic of Late Capitalism on the Bonaventure Hotel. And, as optional readings (because I will be bringing them up) Douglas Crimp's "Re-Defining Site Specificity" and Hal Foster's "The Un-making of Sculpture," both in Richard Serra (October Files).
For the second meeting in(side) Serra's "Symmetry," on a different day (see below for days and times), and in a different space, we will perform a close reading of and discuss Amelia Jones's "(Post)Urban Self Image," which critiques the "blind spots" of Kwon's and Jameson's essay and chapter section and moves out toward a feminist-postcolonial-poststructuralist reading of space/place and so-called "site specificity". Also during this second meeting we will perform a close reading of and discuss Amelia Jones's "The Televisual Architecture of the Dream Body" -- which is a movement away from the mentalities foregrounded in "Octoberist" (art) historical writings. Now, as optional readings (because I will be bringing the ideas up) Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "The Intertwining -- the Chiasmus".
In using the two spaces of "Symmetry," for two (or more) different views (asymmetry) of space and so-called site specificity, it is hoped that a certain productive and crucially needed antagonism will be foregrounded and philosophically engaged.
All of the readings will be available on-line, but one may wish to buy the texts (respectively), Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another, Fredrick Jameson, The Logic of Late Capitalism, Hal Foster and Gordon Hughes, eds., Richard Serra, Amelia Jones, Self/Image, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible.
Another Place: In the spirit of the readings and discussions, we will all (if you wish) re-converge at the Bonaventure Hotel (in the revolving bar!) in order to continue the dialogs or go on other "lines of flight" -- after the last meeting of this reading group.
Date: October 19 and 26, from 12-2 (2 meetings)
Location: "Sequence" at LACMA
Teacher: Robert Summers
Limit: 15 people
Fee: $15
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- Dates
- October 19, 2008 at 12:00pm
October 26, 2008 at 12:00pm
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This class has been scheduled.
Date: October 19 and 26, from 12-2 (2 meetings)
Location:
14 Oct 2008 7:11PM
Please stay posted (on the lookout via an email) for the readings to be posted on-line, but I would urge you to buy the books: skylight bookstore and MoCA has them all.
Please have the first readings done (Kwon and Jameson) done before class on the 19th. You may also want to read the "optional" readings.
Thank you, Robert
15 Oct 2008 6:46AM
The first reading is posted: Miwon Kwon's "One Place After Another" . This was published in October Journal in 1997. It is crucial that you also read the chapter of the same title from her book, which will be up in a few. We will be discussing both on the first day of the meeting -- as well as the selection from Jameson. (The "optional" readings will be of help too -- for a deeply engaged discussion.)
Stay tuned for daily updates.
As ever, Robert
PS: See second post below for link to the Miwon Kwon essay from October Journal.
17 Oct 2008 2:56AM
texts uploaded:
Miwon Kwon
17 Oct 2008 7:12AM
I forgot to post the link to the Kwon essay from October Journal: http://aaaarg.org/miwon-kwon-one-place-after-another-notes-on-site-speci...
It is crucial that you read both the essay and the chapter ("One place After Another (excerpt)". These should be read along with the Fredrick Jameson essay (Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" Pages 38-45.
Thanks, Robert
17 Oct 2008 12:26PM
i posted another version of Miwon Kwon
18 Oct 2008 7:02PM
Please go to aaaarg.com for all the readings (as PDFs) listed above for this reading group. Later today, or early Saturday, I will be emailing the group some optional "readings" (really short ones -- mostly notes and email exchanges which refer back to the first meeting) for THIS Sunday, which is the last meeting: sad.
-Robert
PS: questions? concerns? comments? please email me at robtsum@gmail.com
24 Oct 2008 7:17PM
The following are now available:
The Intertwining-The Chiasm
written by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
http://aaaarg.org/the-intertwining-the-chiasm
(Post)Urban Self Image
written by Ameila Jones
http://aaaarg.org/selfimage-excerpt
25 Oct 2008 7:47AM
May everyone please email me there email address who is taking the class? I would like to send you some notes and questions and comments from last week. Please email Robert at robtsum@gmail.com : ASAP if possible.
Also, this sunday we will return to Miwon Kwon's book chapter and Jameson on the Bonaventure for roughly 1/3 of the class. The remaining time will be turned toward Amelia Jone's essay -- where more attention will be given to her essay "(Post)Urban Self Image" from her text _Self/Image_ -- all of these and more are posted on aaaarg.org
But, again, please email me so that I may email you some material (very short reading, and optional). Again, my email is robtsum@gmail.com
Thanks ever so much, Robert
25 Oct 2008 9:19AM
Here is a recent "e-conversation" that resonates with some of the issues and ideas brought up in the last meeting. We will return to some of these issues and ideas at the next meeting -- tomorrow (or today, depending when you read this) October 26, 2008 at The Public School at LACMA ("in" Serra -- all innuendos intended):
Public School (at LACMA) Reading/Discussion Group:
26 Oct 2008 3:06AM
Dear One-Place-After-Another Folks,
Thanks ever so much for your time and input -- your brilliant and cutting insights and antagonisms. I hope you enjoyed the reading/discussion group (which was too short!) as much as I did, and I hope you got something out of it -- or will, in the future to-come.
As ever, Robert
Robert Summers, PhD/ABD
Art History + Critical Theory
Department of Art History
UCLA
e: robtsum@gmail.com
e: robtsum@ucla.edu
26 Oct 2008 11:28PM