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Neil Cummings' lecture and seminar notes, as well as bibliographies
feel free to comment in the discussion pages of each lecture, or if you want to add to the lecture I'll consider incorporating new material into any subsequent versions.
first stage: lectures
- A lecture that models art as a social practice; and using the reflexive sociology of Pierre Bourdieu reflects upon our conduct at Chelsea.
- Uses 'Post Production Culture as Screenplay: how art reprograms the world by Nicholas Bourriaud as its source. Under a networked communication model of creative exchange should we reconfigure our models of art practice?
Shiny and New: Consuming Romanticism Part 1
- A lecture that loops back to the 19thC to the roots of our art institutions, and the templates of how we learnt to be contemporary artists
- The singular and the serial are the binaries through which we make values visible in our artworlds, and pretty much through the rest of material culture too!
- We'll glance back to the two great 19thC institutions that structure our material world, the Department Store and the Public Museum.
more coming soon....
second stage: lectures
- A lecture that maps a possible geneology; from art being an autonomous object in the world, to -via institutional critique- investigating its own means of reproduction,
- to eventually meshing with the social processes -financial, social and political- that make it (art) possible - context is everything
- A lecture that traces the evolution of our contemporary cultures of the immaterial, and thinks about some of the impact of –principally- electronic technologies on models of subjectivity, and cultural values.
- * A lecture that plays with issues of collaboration, generosity and freedom in contemporary cultural production - including visual art. It's inspired by Free, Libre or Open Source Software, [FLOSS] for short.
more coming soon........
third stage: lectures
Ordinary: The Ethnographic Charm of the Everyday
- Our tradition of the pictorial real: an image depicts a missing ’actual’ event classically perhaps the photograph as documentary evidence, has been replaced by the social real.
For this lecture, the real becomes the elusive everyday.........
more coming soon........
miscelaneous
- Notes of the two seminars that I used to convene at Chelsea, one called Tactics and the other Free Culture
- Bibliographies for all the lectures, some more up-to-date than others
return to lectures, or see related Thesis and Essays
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Stuff!
Tuesday September 7 2010
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