The third season of the LCCA Evening School presents series of text reading workshops, seminars and lectures by local and international professionals. The cycle is based on exploring the contemporary art processes in order to foster the development of critical thinking and discussion in the Latvian art scene.
Curated by Valts Miķelsons and Inga Lāce.
# 1 Creative potential of the everydayness
Texts:
• Michel de Certeau. The Practice of Everyday Life. 1984
• Steven Connor. Rough Magic: Bags. 2000.
• Harry Harootunian. The Promise of ‘Modern Life’. 2000.
# 2 Art and migration
Texts:
• Michael Baers. “No Good Time for an Exhibition: Reflections on the Picasso in Palestine Project”, Part II. 2012
• Nahrain Al-Mousawi. “Aesthetics of Migration. Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones”. 2015.
# 3 Postcommunism
Texts:
• Boriss Groiss, "Dažādības otrā pusē: kultūras studijas un to postkomunistiskais Citādais" // Mākslas vara, LLMC, 2015.
• Vladimir Tismăneanu, “The Demise of Leninism and the Future of Liberal Values” // In Marx's Shadow: Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia. Eds. Costica Bradatan, Serguei Oushakine. Lexington Books, 2010.
# 4 Collective practices in art
Texts:
• Hardijs Lediņš. Aptuvenās mākslas manifests. 1987.
• Liam Gillick. Maybe It Would Be Better If We Worked in Groups of Three? 2009.
# 5 Lecture and reading workshop by curator Heidi Ballet
# 6 Art and morality
Texts:
• Bruno Latour, “What Is Iconoclash? Or Is There a World Beyond the Image Wars?” // Iconoclash, Beyond the Image-Wars in Science, Religion and Art. Eds P. Weibel, B. Latour. ZKM and MIT Press, 2002.
• Jorge Ribalta, “On the Recent Events at MACBA” // Internationale Online. 2015.
• Patricia Falguières, “Verifica dei poteri” // Internationale Online. 2015.
# 7 Post-psychoanalysis
In collaboration with anthropologist Haralds Matulis
Texts:
• Terry Brown, “Feminism and Psychoanalysis, a Family Affair?” // Discontented Discourses: Feminism / textual Intervention / psychoanalysis. University of Illinois Press, 1988.
• Beatriz Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2008.
# 8 Museums
In collaboration with Māra Pinka, Jekaterina Kalēja, association Museums Revealed / Museum Anthropology
Texts:
• Benedict Anderson, “Census, Map, Museum” // Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. 1991.
• Alfred Gell, “Vogel's Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps”. 1996.
# 9 Superficiality
Texts:
• Timotheus Vermeulen, The New “Depthiness”. 2015.
• Sarah Briggs Ramsay, Concrete’s Many Faces. 2015.
# 10 Art Criticism and the Baltics
In collaboration with semiotician and art critic Indrek Grigor
Although the Baltic States are often considered as a single region consisting of small counties, the distances between its main art centres are considerable. Furthermore, the convenient flight connections to Western Europe mean that a special interest and will is necessary, in order to choose to follow the art processes in Tallinn, Tartu, Vilnius or Kaunas. Additional difficulties arise from the limited mutual exchange of exhibitions, information and cultural references.
Drawing inspiration from the Art Magazine Reading Group operating in New York and London, the participants of the Evening School reading workshop are invited to read the spring issue of Estonian art and visual culture quaterly KUNST.EE. In addition to questions on the relevance, contents and role of such periodicals, we will turn to the strategies of art criticism and their relationship to the local context.
Texts:
• Magazine KUNST.EE 2016/1
# 10 Corruption
Texts:
• Natasha Ginwala, “Corruption: Three Bodies, and Ungovernable Subjects”. 2015.
• “Do You Think That’s Funny?” A Conversation between Edward Snowden and UBERMORGEN. 2013.
• Quintan Ana Wikswo. Excerpted from IN WHICH THE ARTIST IS HELD FOR QUESTIONING BY THE VIRGINIA STATE POLICE. 2015.