Corner College is delighted to present Summer School by artist, Antoni Wojtyra, this summer during July and August.

Summer School presents readings, lectures, and films composed as a remedial Art theory class and is organized in a spirit of "each one, teach one" - Antoni Wojtyra will act as lead organizer, a guide, instigator and as a student learning, not just a teacher. The 7 week course employs a collection Art and theory by artists and primarily address 2 major issues: the ability of Art to effect social change and secondly places and strategies of Art production.

Texts will be read by each student in advance and will be discussed together as a group and supplemented by films, and invited guest teachers. The first class addresses the impossibility of learning and knowing everything and it will be held on Tuesday July 7, 7 p.m. All subsequent classes will be held on Tuesday evenings (schedule below). A nominal CHF 30.- tuition fee for participating students includes a course book published by Rollo Press.


Program

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1 Tuesday July 7, 7 p.m.
Introduction, Sign-up and get together
-- Film: 'La Jetée' by Chris Marker
-- Text: 'The Library of Babel' by Jorge Luis Borges

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2 Tuesday July 14, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'Untitled' by David Hammons
-- Text: 'Something's Missing' by Ken Lum

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3 Tuesday July 21, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'The Applied Social Arts' by Artur Zmijewski

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4 Tuesday July 28, 7 p.m.
VACATION

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5 Tuesday August 4, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'Inside the white cube: notes on the gallery space' by Brian O'Doherty
-- Text: 'May I help you?' by Andrea Fraser

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6 Tuesday August 11, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'An introduction to the general theory of place' by Wieslaw Borowski, Hanna Plaszkowska, Mariusz Tchorek
-- 3 Films by Gordon Matta Clark Conical Intersect (1975), Splitting (1974), Bingo Ninths (1974)

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7 Tuesday August 18, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'Depiction, Object, Event' by Jeff Wall

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8 Tuesday August 25, 7 p.m.
-- Text: 'Dispersion' by Seth Price
GRADUATION PARTY

Summer School 2009

Theory Tuesdays is a participatory reading group organized in the spirit of "each one, teach one." Philip Matesic will launch the weekly reading group with the organization and coordination of the first six weeks under the theme "Participation in Art." The required texts will be read by each member in advance and then discussed together as a group.

At the conclusion of the fifth week, the reading schedule will be open to the individual members of the group, to decide what to read and discuss in the following weeks. Active participation by all members is essential as Theory Tuesdays sets out to be a collaborative, ongoing discussion, where everyone will contribute, teach and learn from one another.

The first two Tuesdays will address the historical lineage of participation in art as well as a detailed glimpse into Happenings in New York in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The first session will be held on Tuesday, Oktober 6 at 7 p.m. All subsequent sessions will be held on Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. (schedule below). A nominal CHF 20.- tuition fee for participating members will include copies of required readings and help fund a small travel budget for the visiting artist.

Theory Tuesdays

Text: Claire Bishop "Viewers As Producers"
Text: Nicolas Bourriaud "Relational Form"  
Text: Lars Bang Larsen "Social Aesthetics"

Text: Miwon Kwon "From Site to Community in New Genre Public Art"
Text: Cascoland "Interventions in Public Space"

Text: Darren O’ Donnell "Social Acupuncture" (Part One and Two)
Text: Tom Finkelpearl "Interview: Vito Acconci on Art, Architecture, Arvada and Storefront"

Saskia de Brauw is a performance artist, dancer, and photographer living and working in Amsterdam. She has completed multiple projects investigating the body in relation to architectural space, community and time. Participation has played an important role in her projects, ranging from a one on one folding project on the streets of Paris to collaborating with a small community in Amersfoort, Netherlands.

Room II, The Dutch seaside, 2005

Theory Tuesdays

Film: "On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972" Documentary (1989)
Film: "La Société du spectacle" by Guy Debord (1973)

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Text: Excerpts from "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century" by Greil Marcus (1989)

Lipstick Traces

Text: Excerpts from "Ästhetik der Interpassivität" by Robert Pfaller (2009)

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Text: Excerpts from "Art As Experience" by John Dewey (1934)

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Film: "Back to Fucking Cambridge" by Otto Mühl and Terese Panoutsopoulos (1987)

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Text: "Altermodern" Exhibition Catalogue curated by Nicolas Bourriaud (2009)

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This week's Theory Tuesdays will be a Dada Historical Review, held at the Cabaret Voltaire!

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This week's Theory Tuesdays will be a Dada Historical Review, held at the Cabaret Voltaire!

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"Altermodern" continued...

1. "The Ends of Exile: Toward A Coming Universality" by T.J. Demos
2. "Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence" by Okwui Enwezor

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Selected writings of Hal Foster:

1. "The Artist As Ethnographer?"
2. Excerpts from "Design and Crime"

Hal Foster

The White Cube and The Studio

1. "Inside The White Cube" by Brian O'Doherty (Introduced by Daniel M.)
2. "Studio And Cube, On The Relationship Between Where Art Is Made And Where Art Is Displayed" by Brian O'Doherty

White Cube

"Migrants of Identity" by Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson

1. Introduction: The Topic and the Book
2. Chapter 1: Home and Movement: A Polemic

Migrants of Identity

--- "Foksal Gallery and the Notion of Archive: Between Inventory and Place" by Pawel Polit

Foskal Gallery and the Notion of Archive -- Between Inventory and Place

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--- Excerpts from "Celebration at Persepolis" by Michael Stevenson

Celebration at Persepolis

Visiting Artist: Nic Hess
http://www.nichess.ch

Simple Mathematics

--- Mladen Dolar’s "What's In A Voice"
--- Video Lecture: Mladen Dolar's "What’s In A Voice"
http://vimeo.com/7667628

Mladen Dolar

--- Excerpts from "Producing Publics / Making Worlds! On the Relationship Between the Art Public and the Counterpublic" by Marion von Ostern

--- "The Fracturing of Globalization" by Julian Stallabrass
--- "Acting Out in the City: Artistic Intervention as Production of Public Space" by Hou Hanru

Visiting Artist: Lada Nakonechna

Dear Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Can We Ever Give Up the Sweet? by Lada Nakonechna

--- "Design Thinking or Critical Design?" by Rick Poynor
--- "Middle Culture: Designers, Artists, Professionals" by Camiel van Winkel

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--- Film: "Ameise der Kunst" by Jonathan Meese

Jonathan Meese

Hungry for Antropophagy

"Abaporu" the antropophagic emblem

Francy Alys Filmabend

DVD Cover

Filmabend

Here Is Always Somewhere Else: The Life of Bas Jan Ader

Visiting Artist Series
Visiting Artist Talk - Chris Tourre (Chicago, USA)

Christopher Tourre is a Chicago-based artist and part
of Unit 2 Art and Design Collective. Tourre's work
explores community, spirituality, and the folkier aspects
of culture while highlighting participation and DIY culture
as critical components to his art-making. Tourre obtained
a BFA in Sculpture from The Pennsylvania State University
and an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at
Chicago. His work has been shown at various venues
including most recently the Museum of Contemporary
Art (Chicago), Co-Prosperity Sphere, Gallery 400, Eel Space
and The South Side Community Arts Center.

Unit 2 Website
http://www.unit2.us

Chris Tourre