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

le • F09 • boasp@pdx.edu (YR 1 assignments; YR 2 assignments; all) 1/11

date topic class activities reading work for next class

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

w2 The Limitis of Legibility Readers’ discussion Blanchot, “The Most Profound Question” for 1/21
1/14 Asking questions Phaidon summaries Byars, “Talk at NSCAD: World Question Center” MFA Statement Outline (Y2)
Raqs Media Collective, Stammer, Mumble, Sweat, Scrawl, and Tic” Monograph Project: draft plan
Research interview models (all)

w3 Infinite Conversation Readers’ discussion Weiss, “Language in the Vicinity of Art” for 1/28
1/21 MP round robin Cattelan/Chan Interview, “Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind” 1st Draft interview Q&A (all)
MP work session Temporary Services, "Do-It-Yourself Interview" MP Select Related Text; work
on Statement 1st Draft (Y2)
w4 “Ask Somebody Else Readers’ discussion Allen, “Against Criticism: The Artist Interview in Avalanche” for 2/4
1/28 Something Else” MP round robin Griffin, “Method Acting: The Artist-Interviewer Conversation” MP Focus Essay Draft (Y10
Image/Sound pres Anastas, “A Response” MFA Statement 1st Draft (Y2)

w5 Artists on artists Readers’ discussion Gillick, “Now I See: One Work by Anri Sala” for 2/11
2/4 Editing workshop Gillick/Tirivanijah, “From a Truncated Correspondence (Simile: Belly Laugh)” Your Manifesto, Questionnaire,
Chan, “Fearless Symmetry” FAQ or Lexicon (all)
Thomas Hirschhorn, “Eternal Flame”
Humphrey, “Amy Sillman”
Kushner, “William Eggleston”

w6 Language as material I: Readers’ discussion Situationist International, “Response to Questionnaire” for 2/18
2/11 manifestos, polemics, Share Manifestos Navarro, “Geometric Retroabstraction” MP Draft Layout w/images (all)
FAQs Raqs Media Collective, “A Concise Lexicon of/for The Digital Commons” Interview Draft (all)

w7 Language as material II: Readers’ discussion Kaprow, “Untitled Essay and Other Works” for 2/25
2/18 Something Else Press Image examples Knowles, “by Alison Knowles” Prose piece: anecdote or
Great Bear Pamphlets Small group review Higgins, “A Book About Love & Death” autobio (all)

w8 Telling stories Readers’ discussion Dean, “Fernsehturm” for 3/4

2/25 Everyone’s Share writing Antin, “The Man without a World” (excerpt) MP Layout Final
Autobiography Nauman, “Good Boy Bad Boy” MP Focus Essay Draft (Y1)
Mullican, “Untitled” MFA Project Statement Draft
Mir, ““Living & Loving #2—The Biography of Zoe Stillpass” (Y2)

w9 Small group review

3/4
w10 MP Final
3/11 Presentations
wk11 MP Final Due: Monograph Project pdf
TBA Presentations Research Packets/bilbiography
MFA Project Stmt Drafts
ART 582 Course Reading List • Boas W09

Roland Barthes, “From Work to Text,” Image, Music, Text 155-164 pdf (e-reserve)
Georges Perec, “The Page,” Species of Spaces on Other Pieces, 9-15 pdf (e-reserve)
Robert Smthson, “Language to Be Looked At and/or Things to Be Read,” Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, 61 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 pdf (e-reserve)
Temporary Services, "Do-It-Yourself Interview" www.temporaryservices.org pdf (e-reserve)
Adrian Piper Interview, Funky Lessons, 89-91 pdf (e-reserve)

Allen, “Against Criticism: The Artist Interview in Avalanche,” Art Journal 64 no3 F2005 pdf (e-reserve)
Griffin, “Method Acting: The Artist-Interviewer Conversation,” Art Journal 64 no3 F2005 pdf (e-reserve)
Anastas, “A Response,” Art Journal 64 no3 F2005 pdf (e-reserve)

Gillick, “Now I See: One Work by Anri Sala” Liam Gillick Proxemics: Selected Writings (1988-2006), 271-6 pdf (e-reserve)
Gillick & Tirivanijah, “From a Truncated Correspondence (Simile: Belly Laugh),” 181-5 pdf (e-reserve)
Chan, “Fearless Symmetry,” Artforum March 2007 260-1 pdf (e-reserve)
Thomas Hirschhorn, “Eternal Flame” Artforum March 2007 268 pdf (e-reserve)
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, pdf (e-reserve)
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

from 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”

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