Integrating Text

Integrating Text SIM 202X Fall 2005	Jane D. Marsching email office hours: Tuesday 2-4 signup sheet is on door my office is in South on the third floor
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	your input: because this is a new class, a diverse class of many kinds of art makers, it is important to me for you to give your input about what kinds of text interest you. please feel free to email suggestions for readings to me, let me know about exhibits or shows that pertain to the work we do here so we may go see work together, or suggest film or video that has had an influence on your relationship to language in profound ways. i am just as committed to learning here as i am asking you to be. here is a list of possible readings/artists to look at. i am, again, open and encouraging to suggestions and input. Lynda Barry Sophie Calle David Wilson Linda Montano Jeanne Finley Thich Nacht Hanh Lorna Simpson James Luna Felix Gonzalez Torres Spaulding Gray David Wojnarowicz Miranda July Adrian Piper On Kawara The Guerilla Girls Andy Warhol Public Enemy Ann Hamilton Carrie Mae Weems Raymond Pettibon Barbara Kruger Nicole Eisenman Roland Barthes Strunk & White Xu Bing John Baldessari Susan Sontag Helene Cixous Haruki Murakami Tracy+the Plastics Jack Pierson you tell me… "In the act of writing about art, then, you press language to the point of fracture and try to do what writing cannot do: account for the experience." Dave Hickey "Air Guitar" "...the primary virtue and usefulness of criticism resides precisely in its limitations, in the fact that the critic's fragile linguistic tryst with the visible object is always momentary, ephemeral, and local to its context." Dave Hickey, “Air Guitar”