Beginning July 1, 2011 eighteen students from Russia, Columbia, Malaysia, Belarus, USA and Sweden arrived in Mariestad to participate in an intensive summer course called Shaping the City. Course lectures and discussions focused on Mariestad’s architectural and social history, geography, tourism, national identity, uses of public space, and socially engaged art practices. Students were asked to critically examine their role in the city while creating projects in or about Mariestad that use the themes of the course as inspiration. Their work was presented in an exhibition on July 21, 2011.
The course was led by artist Amanda Herman (USA) with assistance from Stadslabratoriet/CityArtLab director, Anna Viola Hallberg (SE). Celebrated artists from Sweden and abroad participated and led workshops. Mason Nye (NYC) worked with six students to paint a 45-meter long mural and Stewart Wilson (NYC) led a floating sculpture workshop for students and local residents.

The course is presented in collaboration with the following organizations: Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden, California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. USA, and Stadslabratoriet/CityArtLab in Mariestad, Sweden.

12.8.11

SHAPING THE CITY

(Meeting Mariestad)

Reading Packet

  

Valand School of Fine Arts / California College of the Arts


Summer Course

2011

Mariestad, Sweden

 

 

Instructors

Amanda Herman

with

Anna Viola Hallberg 

Part One: Space & Place

Doreen Massey, “A Global Sense of Place, 1991.” Situation, Clair Doherty ed. Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2009

Lucy R. Lippard, “On and Off the Map.” The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, The New Press, New York, 1997

Trevor Paglen, “Experimental Geography: From Cultural Production to the Production of Space.” Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, Independent Curators International, 2010           **ONLINE: www.mapsarchive.org

Miwon Kwon, “Itinerant Artists”, “From Site to Community in New Genre Public Art: The Case of “Culture in Action”, and “The (Un) Sitings of Community.” One Space After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity pp. 46-55, Ch. 4 & Ch. 5 MIT Press, 2004

Part Two: Culture Class
Martha Rosler, “Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part II (Selected sections).” E-flux Journal # 23, March 2011. <http://e-flux.com/journal/view/219>

Martha Rosler, “Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part III.” E-flux Journal # 25, May 2011. <http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/231>

See: George Yudice The Expediency of Culture & Martha Rosler’s Culture Class Part I in Further Reading (not required)

Part Three: Social Practice: Methods and Critique

For a historical framework, see Maria Lind’s A Collaborative Turn in Further Reading (not required)

Sinziana Ravini, “Rethinking Relational Aesthetics” Neighborhood Secrets: Art as Urban Processes, Jan Inge Reilstad Ed. Press Publishing, Norway, 2009

Vito Acconci “Leaving Home: Notes on Insertions into the Public, 2000” Situation, Clair Doherty ed. Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2009

Claire Bishop, The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents”, Art Forum Feb., 2006
**ONLINE: Leisurearts discussion of Bishop’s article and more:
http://leisurearts.blogspot.com/2006/05/grant-kester-artforum-claire-bishop.html

Joe Scanlan, “Traffic Control: Joe Scanlan on Social Space and Relational Aesthetics”, Art Forum, Summer 2005.

Line Kjaer, “The Garden and the Junk Playground: Self-organization and Art as Social Practice.” SOUP – Sun Over Urban Planen Marie Bruun Yde, Ed. Danish Arts Foundation, 2007


Further Reading (not required):
Martha Rosler, “Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part I.” E-flux Journal # 21, December 2012. < http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/190>

George Yudice, “The Expediency of Culture” The Expediency of Culture, Duke University Press, 2003

Sue Halpern, “The Mayor of Rust” The New York Times Magazine, 02/13/2011

Maria Lind, “The Collaborative Turn” Taking the Matter into Common Hands: On Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices, Johanna Billing, Lars Nilsson and Maria Lind, Eds. Black Dog Publishing, 2007





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