May 2

Dan Graham

Homes for America 1966 photograph

Homes for America Detail

Paul McCarthy talks about Heidi
Paul Mccarthy,Heidi 1992

4 Utopian Communities That Bombed Miserably

Ghost Colonies: Failed Utopias, Forgotten Exiles and Abandoned Outposts of Empire by Ed Wright

rev·o·lu·tion   /ˌrɛvəˈluʃən/ Show Spelled
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–noun
1. an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
2. Sociology . a radical and pervasive change in society and the social structure, especially one made suddenly and often accompanied by violence. Compare social evolution.
3. a sudden, complete or marked change in something: the present revolution in church architecture

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–noun
1. an especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, especially a political cause.
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–adjective
2. of or pertaining to activism or activists: an activist organization for environmental concern.
3. advocating or opposing a cause or issue vigorously, especially a political cause: Activist opponents of the President picketed the White house.

April 25th

Agnes Denes



Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley, Field for the British Isles, 1993. Terracotta, overall size variable, each figure 80-260mm. © Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery

Ilya Kabakov the palace of project

April 11

Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Future Monument
Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet


Wochenklausur

Interventionist Art by MassMoCA

Destruction of Ai Weiwei's studio

april 4th

Censorship to the Internet

Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States

Utopia Ohio
Ironic?

Buckminster Fuller
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2
3

March 14

Trouble in Utopia

Blade Runner Replicants

From Modernism to
Hypermodernism and Beyond
An Interview with Paul Virilio

Jean Baudrillard

Surrogates

Gamer

March 7th

Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

Claude Levi-Strauss Structrual Anthropology

Roland Barthes "The Death of the Author"

The Anthropic Principle

Remodernist Manifesto

Feb. 28

Kurt Schwitters Poem
Getting Around

"Inspiration," the false artist says,
"it just comes to me." And it shows.
His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room
-- morning, evening, midnight, noon.

For myself, I have to search for it.
The whole world is your palate,
but only if you reach,
take hold of what you need and pocket it.

I've walked every street of this town,
know every crumbling curb,
old bullets' pockmarks in the brick,
the unsifted rubbish piles where treasures
sometimes rise from the ashes.

In getting around, the first thing
is to be able to stop.
That's why I rely on my bicycle --
a sturdy old clunker, no gears or gadgets
to let me down far from home,
but a basket of course,
to carry pockets' overflow.

If you must take the train
go fourth class, ride the local.
Avoid motor cars and express trains.

Get to know your travelling companions
and don't dwell on your destination.
Remember, at any station you may step down
stay the night or the morning
rummage in a flea market or listen to gossip.

The whole world is your palate.
But only if you touch it -- take hold! A note on airplanes, airships, dirigibles:
As already stated, in getting around
the first thing is to be able to stop.

from the Contemporary American Poetry Archive




Merz Picture 25A: The Star Picture, 1920
Montage, collage and oil on cardboard, 104.5 x 79 cm

A Way of Proceeding: Joseph Beuys, the Epistemological Break and Radical Thought Today


CLIVE BELL "The Aesthetic Hypothesis"



Saint-Denis Cathedral, Gothic, founded 1137 by Abbot Suger


Daniel Buren, Les Deux Plateaux (The Two Levels), Paris 1986 Installation