Introductions
08.23
Introductions and Course Structure
How are we engaging the words “art” and “community”?
08.28
Readings
- “The Seductions of Community: Reconsidering Community,” Gerald Creed, p. 1-9
- Lore of the Local, Lucy Lippard, p.8-13, 18-20, 32-38
- ADDITIONAL: “Intersectionality, Identity, and Positionality,” Kathryn Sorrells & Sachi Sekimoto
08.29 Citizen Salon: Art as Oxygen @ Open Grounds, 6-7:30pm
08.30 @ Bridge PAI
Meet with director of the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Alan Goffinski
Readings
- “Outside the Citadel, Social Practice Art Is Intended to Nurture,” Randy Kennedy
- “A Critique of Social Art Practice” Ben Davis
Slingshot Art Movement: Youth Open Mic Night @ Monticello HS, 7pm
Charlottesville & the University
09.04
Readings
- The Charlottesville Syllabus (selections below)
- That World Is Gone: Race & Displacement In A Southern Town
- “Aligning Rhetoric and Research: The Unbalanced Development of the Vinegar Hill Plan,” Elena Weissmann
- “On Being Uneasy” Linked Fates and Futures: Communities and Campuses as Equitable Partners, Marta Vega
SHARE:
3 things you are proficient in/excited about?
09.06
Visit Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Additional Resource:
#HoosForDREAMers @12:50pm, Amphitheater
Listening
09.11
Readings
Come with an idea for your daily practice.
09.13
Collaboration, Social Co-Operation, Collectivity
09.18
Readings
- Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century. Nato Thompson, excerpts
- “Where the Green Ants Dream: Aspects of Community in Six Projects,” Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production. Carol Becker, p. 98-103
09.20
Meet with Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Aidyn Mills
Readings
Ethics
09.25
Readings
- “Values and Ethics of Community-Based Arts Practice,” Arlene Goldbard
- “Six Essential Ethical Commitments for Effective Artistic Response,” USDAC, p.56-62
09.27
Optional Video Lab
Video Project
10.02 NO CLASS
10.04
Video Project
Liz Lerman’s Critical Response
Artists and Gentrification
10.09
Civic and Community Engagement Gathering at Open Grounds 5-7pm (free dinner)
Readings
“Artists and Gentrification,” Essay in Createquity.com. Anne Godwa Nicodemus
10.11
Project Work Session: visit Community Bikes
Aesthetics
10.16
- “Decolonizing Aesthetics” Nicole Gurgel
- “Decolonizing is Not a Metaphor” Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Lang (2012)
10.18
Meet with Barbara Brown Wilson, Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning and PHA board member
bell hooks
10.23
Art On My Mind, bell hooks (1995)
10.25 Class Cancelled (Optional Talk Below!)
Dr. bell hooks Talk, Hollins University
6pm, Richard Wetherill VAC Auditorium
Ways of being “Artist”
10.30
- “Modeling Artistic Resistance in the Era of Trump,” Cathy Park Hong
- “Nothing is ever the same,” Olafur Eliasson
- “Holding Space: Some Principles of Facilitating Group Dialogue,” Arlene Goldbard
Artist residencies / opportunities
- resartis.org
- alliance of artist communities (i don’t recommend becoming a member, but the site has useful information)
11.01
- Watch: Fully Awake: Black Mountain College (2008)
- Check out W.A.G.E. : Working Artists and the Greater Economy
- OurGoods (video)
11.06 Site Visit
11.08
Meet with New City Arts Initiative and The Haven to discuss Housing 2 Home project
11.13 The Magic Circle
All play moves and has its being within a play-ground marked off beforehand either materially or ideally, deliberately or as a matter of course. Just as there is no formal difference between play and ritual, so the ‘consecrated spot’ cannot be formally distinguished from the play-ground. The arena, the card-table, the magic circle, the temple, the stage, the screen, the tennis court, the court of justice, etc, are all in form and function play-grounds, i.e. forbidden spots, isolated, hedged round, hallowed, within which special rules obtain. All are temporary worlds within the ordinary world, dedicated to the performance of an act apart.
~ Johnathan Huizinga
This reading introduces the concept of the magic circle, a boundary of some kind that sets a situation apart from “normal” day to day happenings. Use this reading to help think about how we enter into and exit from “acts apart”. While this reading focuses on games, it can also be useful as a lens for thinking about rituals, art, and other situations that are marked as distinct in some way.
Read about Magic Circles (pdf) by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman
Think about framing as it applies to the following pieces…
- The Pleasure Project by luciana achugar
- Electric Walks by Christina Kubisch
- Dwellings by Charles Simmonds
- The Couple in a Cage by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco
- Walks by Janet Cardiff
11.15
Meet with Ryan about his Woolen Mills photography project
Discuss tech needs for project # 3
11.20 Workshop project No. 3
11.22 No Class – Thanksgiving
11.27 Project No. 3
11.29 Project No. 3
12.04 Last class reflection
12.13 Final Reflection DUE