Generalist Practice -Term 2
Presentation
Tuesday, 31 January 2012 - Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Following the success of last years Reading Group, Generalist Practice, in collaboration with Campbell Works, are pleased to present of new season of the:
READING GROUP
READING GROUP – Being or becoming a Subject and the Subject's ability to act.
Tuesday 31st January 2012 8.00 - 10.00pm
Texts for discussion week 1:
• Isaiah Berlin - Two Concepts of Liberty
• Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970, 1993), chapter 2 (pp. 52-67)
• Hito Steyerl - The Subaltern's Present (preface to the German translation of G. Ch. Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? Postkolonialität und subalterne Artikulation, transl. by Alexander Joskowicz and Stefan Nowotny, Vienna: Turia + Kant 2007 (Es kommt darauf an, Vol. 6).)
Texts for discussion week 2:
• Claire Bishop - The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents (Artforum, February 2006)
• Gavin Grindon - Surrealism, Dada, and the Refusal of Work: Autonomy, Activism, and Social Participation in the Radical Avant-Garde (Oxford Art Journal 34.1, 2011)
• Markus Miessen - The Nightmare of Participation (Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality), Chapters 11 and 12
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