What we are reading:
Meeting 35: International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
A reading packet including texts from Brian O’Doherty, Louise Bourgeois, Albrecht Barthel, and John Baldessari.
What we have read:
Meeting 0: The Emily Harvey Foundation
Meeting 1: The Emily Harvey Foundation
Joseph Grigely, Ed., Exhibition Prosthetics. London: Bedford Press, Architectural Association, School of Architecture, 2010.
Meeting 2: The Emily Harvey Foundation
Pamela Bianchi. “Invisible Mazes-Visible Perceptions.” Stedelijk Studies Journal 7. 2018.
Meeting 3: The Emily Harvey Foundation
Julie Ault. "Three Snapshots from the Eighties: On Group Material", Curating Subjects, Edited by Paul O’Neill. Open Editions/Occasional Table. 2007.
Meeting 4: American Folk Art Museum storage
Field trip—American Folk Art Museum storage, Long Island City, Queens
Meeting 5: The Dream House
Gavin Wade, “Eastside Projects.” OnCurating Issue 2. 2008., Céline Condorelli, Support Structures. London: Sternberg Press, 2010., Eastside Projects, Eastside Projects User’s Manuals. 2015–Present.
Meeting 6: Hauser & Wirth
Field trip—An Incomplete History of Printed Matter's Art Book Fairs
Becky Howland and Ann Messner recall The Real Estate Show, A Book about Colab (and Related Activities). Edited by Max Schumann. Printed Matter, 2016. pp. 101-113
Meeting 7: Broodthaers Society of America
Marcel Broodthaers, Open Letters (English translations here), and AVIS. 1968–72.
Meeting 8: Judd Foundation
Field trip—Judd Foundation at 101 Spring St. NYC.
Meeting 9: april april
Jady Radul, “Marquee Moon”, This is Television, Edited by Ariane Beyn, Daad Artists-In-Berlin Program, Judy Radul, Sternberg Press, 2018. Tish Wrigley, “Jonas Mekas on Filmmaking”, AnOther, 2012., Maboula Soumahoro, excerpt from Black is the Journey, Africana the Name, Polity, 2022.
Meeting 10: Soft Network
Sabine Breitwieser, “Performance without Curators: Art and the Public Sphere”, Timing: On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting, Edited by Beatrice Von Bismarck, Rike Frank, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Jörn Schafaff, Thomas Weski. Sternberg Press, 2014., Nancy Princenthal, “Scott Burton”, Parkett 10, 1986.
Meeting 11: Soft Network
Scott Burton, “Lecture on Self,” Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art & Performance 1965–1975, Edited by David Getsy, Soberscove Press, 2012 and Gordon Hall, “Read me the part a-gain, where I disin-herit everybody,” commissioned by EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, 2014.
Meeting 12: Soft Network
David Getsy, Queer behaviour: Scott Burton’s public sculptures and Scott Burton’s My Brancusi , written for his 1989 Artist's Choice show at MoMA.
Meeting 13: Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program/anonymous gallery/Collect Pond Park
Adrian Piper's “Porgy,” selected by Laura Serejo Genes & Kiyoto Koseki along with an exhibition guide for if Work that can be found here.
Meeting 14: Center for Book Arts
Ulises Carrión's The New Art of Making Books, originally published in Kontexts no. 6-7, 1975, and was printed by Center for Book Arts in 1975 at the request of the author and distributed free to the Center's members.
Meeting 15: Center for Book Arts
David Reinfurt's "G-E-S-T-A-L-T", originally published by The Serving Library.
Meeting 16: Center for Book Arts
Excerpts from interviews and writings from Temporary Services.
Meeting 17: Goethe-Institut New York
Dan Graham’s introduction to Video-Architecture-Television: Writings on Video and Video Works 1970 - 1978 (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1979, Edited by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, contributions by Michael Asher and Dara Birnbaum.)
Meeting 18: Dia Beacon - Blind Dates Recursive 02
Rita McBride’s Arena, 1997, and notecards
Meeting 19: Goethe-Institut New York
Churner, Leah, “Un-TV”. Moving Image Source co-presented with Reverse Shot, Museum of the Moving Image, 2011. We also recommend Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman’s Television Delivers People (1973), and Art-Rite no. 7: video (1974), guest edited by Anna Canepa.
Meeting 20: 52 Walker
Interviews and poems from Wanda Coleman. Also of interest, Cauleen Smith's 2023 interview with Coleman's brother George Evans for the L.A. Times , and this recording of Coleman reading her poem “I Live for My Car”.
Meeting 21: Off Paradise
Amelia Groom “There’s Nothing to See Here: Erasing the Monochrome,” Nana Adusei-Poku “On Being Present Where You Wish to Disappear,” and Audrey Wollen “GIRLS OWN THE VOID.” For further resources on the topic of empty exhibitions, please see this collection of additional readings.
Meeting 22: Off Paradise
Essays and excerpts from Robert Smithson, Lucy Lippard and George Kubler.
Meeting 23: Off Paradise
The White Wall – On The Prehistory Of The ‘White Cube’ by Walter Grasskamp, and two exhibition manifestos: Anti-Civilization Exhibition by Matsuzawa Yutaka and Working Group for ‘The Model’ by Palle Nielsen.
Meeting 24: SculptureCenter
An excerpt from Becoming Palm by Simryn Gill and Michael Taussig, and “Theater, Garden, Bestiary,” a conversation between Filipa Ramos, Vincent Normand, and Tristan Garcia.
Meeting 25: MARCH
An excerpt from Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, and Wolfgang Kemp’s essay “The Narrativity of the Frame.”
Meeting 26: York College public art collection and the Yeh Art Gallery at St. John’s University
Field trip—no reading for our field trip to Jamaica, Queens but we recommend you learn more about Tom Lloyd and the Storefront Museum and, to expand on To Mend the Heat, please watch the wonderful Milford Graves documentary.
Meeting 27: SculptureCenter
A packet of excerpts from texts by Anne Boyer, Linda Nochlin, Roland Barthes, Brian Dillon, Brandon Avery Joyce, and Paul Virilio.
Meeting 28: Soft Network
A packet of excerpts from texts by Rosalind Krauss, László Moholy-Nagy, The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Mirko Zardini, Dragan Espenschied, Variable Media Network, Günther Anders, and Jacques Derrida.
Meeting 29: Off Paradise
Packet of texts including Wisława Szymborska poems, “The Third Table” by Graham Harman, “The Lamp and the Ribbon” by Joseph Strau, and an excerpt from David Getsy’s “Immoderate Couplings,” selected by Ross Knight in conjunction with his exhibition at Off Paradise, Continuous Squeeze.
Meeting 30: Stuyvesant-Fish House
Field trip— Paul Gardère: Vantage Points at Stuyvesant-Fish House
“Relational Undercurrents, Toward an Archipelagic Model of Insular Caribbean Art” by Tatiana Flores and Michelle A. Stephens, and an interview with Gardère by Alejandro Anreus
Meeting 31: Soft Network
Antonin Artaud, “The Theater and Cruelty,” the catalog for Jack Smith Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis (Artists Space, 2018), and Arnold Aronson, “New Homes for New Theater.”
Meeting 32: Manifold Books, Amsterdam
A group of readings: Nick Mauss’ Remaking Ghosts, an excerpt from Art-Rite
Surroundings by Rosemary Mayer, 1977, and Some Days In April by Rosemary Mayer, 1979.
Meeting 33: O-Overgarden, Copenhagen
Our reading packet will include Siri Hustvedt’s “Becoming the Other in Translation,” and excerpts from texts by Alix Rule and David Levine, María Iñigo Clavo, and Anthony Reed.
Meeting 34: Celador, Brussels
Several texts including a transcription of an Eduardo Costa audio work, Burton on Brancusi and several Rosemary Mayer texts.
What should we read?
Maybe there is something newer than these suggestions? To keep expanding our points of view, please let us know of texts that aren't on the usual art history suggested reading lists.
Lucy Steeds. “Contemporary Exhibitions: Art at Large in the World.” Lucy Steeds. Ed., Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art, 2014.
Doherty, Claire. “Curating Wrong Places...Or Where Have All the Penguins Gone?” Paul O'Neill, Ed., Curating Subjects. London: De Appel, 2007.
Enwezor, Okwui “Curating Beyond the Canon” Paul O’Neil Ed., Curating Subjects. London: De Appel, 2007.
Enwezor, Okwui, “World Platforms, Exhibiting Adjacency, and the Surplus Value of Art” mith, Terry, et al. Talking Contemporary Curating. New York, Independent Curators International, 2015.
Filipovic, Elena “David Hammons, Untitled Knobkerry 1994” Filipovic, Elena Ed., The Artist as Curator. Milan Mousse Publishing, London: Koenig Books, 2017.
Groys, Boris. “Exhibitions, Installations, and Nostalgia” Smith, Terry, et al. Talking Contemporary Curating. New York, Independent Curators International, 2015.
Wild, Kim. Theater Garden Beastarium. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019.
Lace, Inga. Ed., Instituting Ecologies: Fellowship Reader #2, Amsterdam: De Appel, 2019.
