DEVELOPMENTS IN RELATIONAL ART
Nicolas Bourriaud, from Postproduction (New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2002) and Relational Aesthetics (Les Presses du Reel, 2002)*
Miwon Kwon, from One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002): 10-31
Andrea Fraser, “What’s Intangible, Transitory, Immediate, Participatory and Rendered in
the Public Sphere? Part II,” Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005), 55-80*
discuss the A+D Gallery & ThreeWalls shows
also look at the following groups: Basekamp (www.basekamp.com); Fritz Haeg
(www.fritzhaeg.com/studio.html); LTTR (www.lttr.org); and WochenKlauser (www.wochenklausur.at)
NEW ECONOMY
Brian Holmes, “The Flexible Personality,” Hieroglyphs of the Future (Zagreb: Arkzin,
2003), online at www.geocities.com/CognitiveCapitalism/holmes1.html*
Andrew Ross, from No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs (New York:
Basic Books, 2003): 123-60
Ellen Dunham-Jones, “Temporary Contracts,” Harvard Design Magazine (Fall 1997)*
Christine Hill, Inventory: The Work of Christine Hill and Volksboutique (Hatje Cantz)*
also look over the Chicago-based online participatory culture businesses threadless.com and imperfectarticles.com
DAILY LIFE
Henri Lefebvre, “Everyday and Everydayness,” Yale French Studies 73 (1987)*
Jack Bankowsky, “Slackers,” Artforum 30, no. 3 (November 1991)
Michel de Certeau, “Making Do,” from Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984)
Mike Featherstone, “Postmodernism and the Aestheticization of Everyday Life,” in Scott
Lash and Jonathan Friedman eds., Modernity and Identity (Cambridge, Basil Blackwell, 1992)
Douglas B. Holt, “Why Do Brands Cause Trouble? A Dialectical Theory of Consumer Culture and Branding,” Journal of Consumer Research 29, no. 1 (June 2002)*
SIGNIFYING PRACTICE
Karl Marx, “Theses on Feuerbach”*
Dick Hebdige, from Subculture: The Meaning of Style (London & New York: Routledge,
1979)
Pierre Bourdieu, “Structures, Habitus, Practices,” from The Logic of Practice (Cambridge:
Polity Press, 1990)
Mary LeClere, “From Specific Objects to Specific Subjects: Is There (Still) Interest in
Pluralism?” Afterall 11 (2005)*
DESIGN
Hal Foster, “Design and Crime,” Design and Crime and Other Diatribes (London: Verso,
2002): 13-27
Jean Baudrillard, from The System of Objects (orig. 1968), trans. James Benedict
(London & New York: Verso, 1996), 15–29
Jean Baudrillard, “Design & Environment,” For a Critique of the Political Economy of the
Sign, trans. Charles Levin (St. Louis: Telos Press, 1981)
John Leland, “How The Disposable Sofa Conquered America,” New York Times (1
December 2002): section 6*
PARTICIPATION & EXCHANGE
Jean Baudrillard, from Simulacra and Simulation, trans. Sheila Faria Glaser (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan)
Marshall Sahlins, “The Spirit of the Gift,” Stone Age Economics (London: Routledge,
1972)
Grant Kester, from Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 97-123
Philip Nobel, “Sign of the Times,” Artforum 41 (January 2003): 104-11*
Emily Steel, “Questions for Mark Kingdon,” Wall Street Journal (8 November 2006): B2B
NETWORK
Roland Barthes, “Death of the Author,” Image-Music-Text, trans. Stephen Heath (New
York: Noonday Press, 1977)
Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control,” October 59 (Winter 1992): 3-7*
Mark S. Gronovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” American Journal of Sociology 78,
no. 6 (May 1973): 1360-80*
Richard Florida, “Cities and the Creative Class,” City & Community 2, no. 1 (March
2003): 16*
COMMUNITY
Claire Bishop, “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics,” October 110 (Fall 2004)*
Claire Bishop, “The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents,” Artforum (February
2006)*
Bill Readings, from The University in Ruins (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press,
1996)
George Van Den Abbeele, introduction to Community at Loose Ends, ed. Miami Theory
Collective (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991)
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