Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Who is Your Contemporary?

Rosemarie Trockel, Ich kann über meine film nur lachen (“My Films Just Make Me Laugh”), 1993    
This week we read Giorgio Agamben's essay, What Is the Contemporary and ask his questions of ourselves and our practices: "Of whom and of what are we contemporaries?" and "What does it mean to be contemporary?" We will consider these questions while visiting three exhibits at MoMA: Meiro Koizumi in the Project Room, 1980s to Now, and Inventing Abstraction: 1910 to 1925.
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