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Suggested Joint Project
Reading and reference list:'
'Here is the reading list as stands. Please all do modify this as you wish.
The first two suggestions are mine – but for the rest I have removed names but included your descriptions of and reasons for including book etc. on the list. Please do stake your claim to suggestions on the list if you want to “go public” and also change, add to and modify the list as you wish.
Katrine:
In light of how I talked about my work –my suggestions refer to the books that most shaped my interest and exploration of space in relation to art and painting in particular.
Gaston Bachelard The Poetics of Space
“Published in English in the 1960s, this text focuses on how we experience intimate places, and how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories and dreams. This book has been suggested by others in the group too.”
Miwon Kwon One Place after Another “One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s. I am interested in particular how it examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity”.
Suggestions by group: “Susan Sontag On Photography”
“Mirror Images (ed W Chadwick) there's an essay by Helaine Posner called The Self and The World: Negotiating Boundaries in the art of Yayoi Kusama, Ana Mendieta, and Francesca Woodman which I found really interesting.”
“The Daily Practice of Painting by Gerhard Richter”
“I know it is not art theory but as Richter is such a prolific and diverse painter I suggest that he is of relevance to much of the discussion around painting. Obviously it is my choice because I think it has been particularly helpful to my practice specifically. He talks a lot about things that would seem appropriate to a wide range of interests, so I hope it is not too specific a suggestion.”
The Originality of the Avant Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind Krauss The Rhetoric of Failure by Ewa Ptouowanska Ziarek - “I am very interested in Deconstruction and would like to know more about the notion of there being a limit to thinking as well as an endless possibility to thinking. I really like the idea of working without any boundaries, physical, psychological, imaginative etc.” Philosophy of Nonsense by Jean-Jacques Lecercle - to learn more about the links between the intention, meaning and expression, and their clashes
Scene of the Crime – Ralph Rugoff (and selected essays by Anthony Vidler & Peter Wollen)
“Scene of the crime meditates on east-coast art aesthetic, which connotes absence, clues, and evidential language which prompts a forensic reading of the east-coast artists, namely Ed Ruscha, Barry Le Va, Vija Geimins, Sharon Lockhart, Anthony Henandez, & James Luna. This aesthetic has influenced my own work I think and I’ve been considering ways that this ‘chalk outline portrait of the social body and its current disorders’ can echo and speak louder in work by the power of understatement.”
