week 9: CAE, Piper, Ayo, Kashmere

Sunday 21 October 6 PM BLOG: READ pages 37-46 of "Video and Resistance: Against Documentary" in The Electronic Disturbance by Critical Art Ensemble. (First full paragraph on page 4 to end of page 13 in PDF). LINK to PDF
WRITE: Briefly summarize the authors' (it's an artist group) claims (5 sentences or less). Compare these views to those of Sontag from earlier this semester. LOOK UP and POST an image from one of the projects mentioned in the article: Nanook of the North, Piss Christ, Lumiere Bros., or Birth of a Nation.

Monday 21 October: screening of Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave and discussion on "Video and Resistance"

Wednesday 23 October: HW: READ Adrian Piper's "Notes on Funk" in Participation 130-134. How does this project compare with artist Damali Ayo's "National Day of Panhandling for Reparations" (check out the YouTube video on her site). How does each project engage the audience in participation? How does each project raise issues about race and racism? We will have a discussion about these questions. WRITE IN YOUR NOTEBOOK: one comment and one ANALYTICAL QUESTION. Note that Piper's work is also discussed in our previous readings from Kester.

Friday 25 October: visiting filmmaker BRETT KASHMERE!
HW: Read a review of his film, Valery's Ankle. LINK