URBAN ADVENTURE – SEMESTER PLAN
Tuesdays 11.15-14.00, room 212
Readings marked with # need to be retrieved from the URL provided. Access free or via www.statsbiblioteket.dk
- MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE -
1. Tuesday February 5
INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE / MAPPING THE CITY
Readings:
(#) Debord, Guy. 2006 [1955]. “Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography”. In Ken Knabb, ed. Situationist International anthology. Berkeley, Calif.: Bureau of Public Secrets. ISBN 978-0-939682-04-1. Pp 8-12. Can also be found on http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
(#) Debord, Guy. 2006 [1958]. “Theory of the Dérive”. In Ken Knabb, ed. Situationist International anthology. Berkeley, Calif.: Bureau of Public Secrets. ISBN 978-0-939682-04-1. Pp 62-66. Can also be found on http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
(#) Debord, Guy. 2006 [1959]. “Détournement as Negation and Prelude”. In Ken Knabb, ed. Situationist International anthology. Berkeley, Calif.: Bureau of Public Secrets. ISBN 978-0-939682-04-1. Pp 67-68. Can also be found on http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
Koolhaas, Rem et. al. 1998 [1995]. Small, medium, large, extra-large. [New York]: Monacelli. ISBN 1-885254-86-5. Pp 1248-1264.
(#) Pinder, David. 2005. “Arts of urban exploration”. In Cultural Geographies vol. 12, no. 4. SAGE. ISSN 1474-4740. http://cgj.sagepub.com/content/vol12/issue4/ pp 383-411
(#) Optional: listen to Kulturmagasinet, DR P2, June 24, 2007, on art in public spaces (Kunst I det offentlige rum, Danish only)
http://www.dr.dk/P2/Kunstmagasinet/20051010115942.htm
2. Tuesday February 12
MOVEMENT IN THE CITY/ SPATIAL POLITICS
Readings:
(#) Borden, Iain. 1998. “A Performative Critique of the American City: the Urban Practice of Skateboarding, 1958-1998”. Paper presented at Urban Space and Representation colloquium, Nottingham, UK. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/3cities/confnott.htm
Certeau, Michel de. 1988 [1984]. The practice of everyday life. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23699-8. Pp 91-110.
Sadler, Simon. 1998. The situationist city. Cambridge Ma.: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-19392-2. Pp 69-103.
Thompson, Nato & Sholette, Gregory. 2004. The interventionists : users' manual for the creative disruption of everyday life. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT. ISBN 0-262-20150-X. Pp 133-141.
Student presentations
- Text:
(#) Hamm, Marion. 2006. “Reclaiming Virtual and Physical Spaces. Indymedia London at the Halloween Critical Mass”. In J. Seijdel, L. Melis & E. Kluitenberg (Eds.), Open 11: Hybrid Space: How wireless media mobilize public space. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers. ISBN 90-5662-536-5. http://www.skor.nl/article-2883-en.html pp 96-111
- Examples: woostercollective.com and/or thevacuumcleaner.co.uk and/or streetart.dk
3. Tuesday February 19
SPACE EXPLORERS
Borden, I et.al. 2000. The unknown city : contesting architecture and social space. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Pp 3-24
Lefebvre, Henri. 1991 [1974]. The production of space. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-18177-6. Pp 26-33.
Pasternak, Anne; Eccles, Tom & Finkelpearl, Tom. 2007. “Thinking about the public in public art”. In Anne Pasternak, ed. Creative Time: The Book. 33 years of public art in New York. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-696-8. Pp 82-90.
Richard, Frances. 2007. “Praxis of surprise, or the irregular garden is the subway”. In Anne Pasternak, ed. Creative Time: The Book. 33 years of public art in New York. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-696-8. Pp 190-193.
Student presentations
- Text:
(#) Butler, T. (2006). “A walk of art: the potential of the sound walk as practice in cultural geography”. Social & Cultural Geography, 7(6). ISSN: 1464-9365. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g769870001~db=all. Pp. 889 - 908
- Examples: malinky.org and/or yellowarrow.net
4. Tuesday February 26
PERFORMING IN THE CITY
Readings
Carlson, Marvin. 1998. Performance : a critical introduction. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-13703-9. Pp 100-143.
(#) Kershaw, Baz. 2003. “Curiosity or Contempt: On Spectacle, the Human, and Activism”, in H.J. Elam.Theatre Journal vol. 55, number 4. Theatre and Activism. Washington DC: The Johns Hopkins University Press. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/toc/tj55.4.html. ISSN 0192-2882. Pp 591-611
Vale, V.. 2006. Pranks 2. San Francisco, CA: RE/Search Publications. ISBN 978-1-889307-08-4. Pp 56-71.
(#) Listen to This American Life episode 286 act two, Mind Games, 24.03 2006
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Archive.aspx?year=2006
Student presentations
- Text: Kershaw
- Examples: Søren Bechnke’s work
Guest lecturer: Søren Bechnke
5+6 Saturday March 1st NB: Class 5+6 take place on a Saturday 10am-6pm. Room 126 (entrance C)
(IN)VISIBLE THEATRE
Togehter with Mobile Interface Culture. Room TBC. Outline of concept to be handed in at 6pm. Documentation of project to be handed in Monday 3 March at 4.50pm
Readings
Boal, Augusto. 2003 [1979]. “Theatre of the Oppressed - third stage”. In N. Wardrip-Fruin & N. Montfort, eds. The new media reader. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. ISBN: 0-262-23227-8. Pp. 339-352.
Goffman, Erving. 1966. Behavior in public places; notes on the social organization of gatherings. New York: Free Press of Glencoe. ISBN: 0-02-911940-5. Pp 31-88.
(#) Nicholson, J. A. (2005). “Flash! Mobs in the Age of Mobile Connectivity”. Fibreculture Journal (6). ISSN: 1449-1443. http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue6
7. Tuesday March 4
PLAY AND GAMES IN THE CITY
Readings
(#) Chang, M., & Goodman, E. (2006). “Asphalt Games: Enacting Place Through Locative Media”. Leonardo electronic almanac, 14(3/4). ISSN: 1071-4391. http://leoalmanac.org/journal/vol%5F14/lea%5Fv14%5Fn03%2D04/toc.asp
(#) Flanagan, Mary. "Locating Play and Politics: Real World Games and Political Action." Paper presented at Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference , Perth Australia Dec 2007 http://www.maryflanagan.com/writing.htm
Optional: Stevens, Quentin. 2007. The ludic city: exploring the potential of public spaces. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-40180-7. Pp 26-46.
Optional: (#) Zweig, J. (1997). Ars Combinatoria: Mystical Systems, Procedural Art, and the Computer. Art Journal, 56(3). ISSN: 0004-3249. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-3249%28199723%2956%3A3%3C%3E1.0.CO%3B2-3. Pp. 20-29
Mid-term evaluation
Evaluation – pre-semester project
Semester project introduction
8. Tuesday March 11 NB: together with Mobile Interface Culture, room 126, entrance C, class starts 11.30am
PERFORMING TECHNOLOGY / PERFORMING TECHNOLOGIES
Lone is available for individual group supervision after class
Readings
Bain, M. (2005). Psychosonics and the modulation of public space. In J. Seijdel & L. Melis (Eds.), Open 9: Sound. The importance of the auditory in art and the public domain. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers. ISBN: 90-5662-457-1. http://www.khm.de/mk/seminar/julia_scher/Psychosonics.htm
(#) Hemment, D. (2006). “Locative Arts”. Leonardo, 39(4). ISSN: 0024094X. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/leonardo/toc/len39.4.html. Pp. 348-355.
Hopman, Aske. 2005. “Amsterdam Realtime”. In J. Brouwer, A. Mulder & A. Nigten, eds. aRt&D - Research and Development in Art. Rotterdam: V2_Publishing/NAi Publishers. ISBN: 90-5662-389-3. Pp. 48-57.
(#) Locke, M. (2002). Wireless culture performs in the temporary intimate zone [Electronic Version]. Horizon0, 4. Retrieved jan 8, 2008 from http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/touch.php?is=4&file=7&tlang=0.
Tuesday March 18
No class (Easter)
First part of semester project to be handed in March 18 at 6pm.
9. Tuesday March 25
AGENCY AND PERFORMATIVITY
Readings:
(#) Pinder, David. 2005. “Arts of urban exploration”. In Cultural Geographies vol. 12, no. 4. SAGE. ISSN 1474-4740. http://cgj.sagepub.com/content/vol12/issue4/ pp 383-304
(#) Battista, K., et al. 2005. “Exploring ‘an area of outstanding unnatural beauty’: a treasure hunt around King’s Cross, London”. In Cultural Geographies vol. 12, no. 4. SAGE. ISSN 1474-4740. http://cgj.sagepub.com/content/vol12/issue4/ pp 429-462
Student presentations
- Text: “Exploring ‘an area of outstanding unnatural beauty’: a treasure hunt around King’s Cross, London”. Present main points of the text
- Examples: A critical analysis of Udflugt Network (udflugt.com) and/or Katapult AudioMoveTeater (katapult.dk)
10. April 1
PUBLIC SPACE (IN THE MAKING?)
Readings:
(#) Sassen, Saskia. 2006. “Public Interventions. The Shifting Meaning of the Urban Condition”. In J. Seijdel, L. Melis & E. Kluitenberg (Eds.), Open 11: Hybrid Space: How wireless media mobilize public space. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers. ISBN 90-5662-536-5. http://www.skor.nl/article-2883-en.html pp 18-26
Marling, Gitte, 2007,“Why Leave the City on Holidays” in Fun City, G. Marling and M. Zerlang, eds, Skive: The Danish Architectural Press. ISBN 978-87-7407-375-8, pp 36-55
Student presentations:
- Text: “Why Leave the City on Holidays”. Present main points of the text.
- Examples: A critical analysis of spacehijackers.co.uk. (focus on We Own The Streets and Midnight Cricket)
April 8
Semester Project deadline 10am
11. April 22: 10-14. Room TBC
PROJECT SEMINAR
Presentation of semester projects
12. April 24: 14-18. Room TBC
PROJECT SEMINAR
Presentation of the semester projects
End of term evaluation
