Collective Art Practice
Collective Art Practice - Performative and Networked Approaches to
Challenging Power
Public Lecture Series, as part of VIS198 Directed Study Group
A series of talks looking at the how groups are using collective
practice and online public space to confront social issues embodied in
the San Diego/Tijuana border region. All lectures will be held at
Calit2, Atkinson Hall, 2nd Floor, Wednesday nights from 6-7pm. This
lecture series is sponsored by UCIRA. If you have questions or are
interested in registering for this class, email Micha Cárdenas at
mcardenas (at) ucsd.edu.
Week 1 - April 2: A Class Without A Teacher? Critical Pedagogy and Intro
to Collective Practice
Presenters: Members of the Groundwork Books Collective,
http://groundwork.ucsd.edu
Week 2 - April 9: A Rich Legacy of Collective Practice
Presenters: Brett Stalbaum, Ricardo Dominguez speaking on Electronic
Disturbance Theater and particle group, http://pitmm.net
Week 3 - April 16: Social Sculpture, society is the sculpture,
collectively creating change
Presenters: The Boredom Patrol of the
Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, http://circasd.org
Week 4 - April 23: Transnational corporations, transnational resistance
Presenters: Colectivo Zapatista (tentative) and
Simon Sedillo of El Enemigo Comun, http://elenemigocomun.net
Week 5 - April 30: Gaming Theory, "In Game" Resistance
Presenters: Adriene Jenik, http://adrienejenik.net
Week 8 - May 21: Gender, Sexuality and Erotic Art Practice – Presenters:
the Sharing Is Sexy collective, http://sharingissexy.org
Week 9 - May 28: DIY, Self-Publishing, Craftivism
Presenters: Grrrl Zines A Go-Go, http://gzagg.org
Week 11 – Friday, June 6th, 6pm, Presentation of Group Projects from VIS198
The flyer with more information about the public talks can be found here (pdf)
Vis 198 - Directed Group Study
Collective Art Practice - Performative and Networked Approaches to
Challenging Power
If you have questions or are interested in registering for this class,
email Micha Cárdenas at mcardenas@ucsd.edu.
This class has three main foci:
- to introduce students to collective practices
- to facilitate student understanding of social issues embodied in the
san diego / tijuana borderlands
- to explore online space as public space, its limitations and
possibilities
Throughout the class, students will meet art and activist collectives
from the San Diego/Tijuana border region and discuss their approaches to
collective practice and their motivations for using it. Two of these
collective presentations will take place in Tijuana, in order to
facilitate collaboration with students at the Autonomous University of
Baja California (UABC) in Tijuana. The presenting groups may include:
Groundwork Books at UCSD, The Boredom Patrol of the Clandestine
Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, Grrrl Zines A Go-Go, Bulbo.tv, Lui
Velazquez, San Diego Indymedia, Colectivo Zapatista and Sharing Is Sexy.org.
The main goal will be for students to create collective projects
responding to social issues existing in the San Diego / Tijuana border
region building on this understanding of collective practice and,
ideally, begin long term sustainable collectives within which to
continue the practice. The projects will be collaborative engagements
with real-world issues, consisting of performance in the online public
space of Second Life. Students will consider the nature of public space,
the lack of physical space and the opportunities for online spaces to be
public spaces.
This class will take place in the Spring 2008 quarter at UCSD, on
Wednesday nights from 5-8pm. The class is supported by an Open Classroom
grant from UCIRA and is receiving support from CRCA.
URL: http://crca.ucsd.edu
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