Karl Erik Schøllhammer, “A Walk in the Invisible City,” Knowledge, Technology, and Policy 21:3 (2008): 143-148.

Grant Kester, “Lessons in Futility: Francis Alÿs and the Lessons of May ’68,” Third Text 23:4 (2009): 407-420.

Anna Dezeuze, “Walking the Line: Francis Alÿs interviewed by Anna Dezeuze,” Art Monthly 323 (2009): 1-6.

Food For Thought

I hope everyone is getting ready for Tuesday.

To recap jobs:

Table Supplier:
Karla

Bakers (please remember to individually wrap):
Angelena
Claudia
Matthew

Sign & survey maker (don't forget to add a consent line with a space for signatures):
Ariel

Cinematographers:
Angelena
Matthew

Cheerleaders:
Alex
Tim
Linda


If you do not see you name on the list and would like to participate, or if you've got an idea for something to add or some other way to participate, sound off in the comments below.


Any ideas for the survey questions?
Remember that the answers will drive the larger performance project.
Here are the notes I jotted down on Tuesday:

What makes something art?
What is performance art?
Do you recognize this as performance art? Why or why not?
What concerns do you have in your daily life?
How might you address these concerns?

just for fun...James Franco's new project

click here to see the latest

John Welchman, “Public Art and the Spectacle of Money: An Assisted Commentary on Art Rebate/Arte Reembolso” in Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, ed. Erika Suderberg, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 237-251.

Jean Fisher, “Minerva Cuevas and the Art of Para-sitic Intervention” Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context, and Enquiry 27 (Summer, 2011): 57-66.

we had a great time at MOLAA!

Lecture on Performance Art in Latin America TONIGHT!

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Gaston Alzate, “Dramaturgy, Citizenship and Queerness: Contemporary Mexican Political Cabaret” Latin American Perspectives 37:1 (January 2010): 62-76.

Cuauhtémoc Medina, ed., Era de la descrepancia: Arte y cultura visual en México/The Age of Discrepancies: Art and Visual Culture in Mexico (1968-1997), (Mexico City: UNAM, 2007).

Edward J. McCaughan, “Navigating the Labyrinth of Silence: Feminist Artists in Mexico,” Social Justice 34:1 (2007): 44-62.

Rubén Gallo, “The Mexican Pentagon: Adventures in Collectivism during the 1970s,” in Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945, ed. Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 165-188.

the latest on Galindo...

for Galindo's newest project, click here

Productive Bodies

For more information on Productive Bodies ("artists working with people and communities to engender social change", [2] Productive Bodies positioned itself as a politically engaged aesthetic project...), read this.

blue overalls

here, we can start discussing our performance art collective and the art action that we will carry out later this year. i think we should start by discussing what our concerns are. what are we interested in? where is our manifesto? who's writing that???