Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia): Cycle 1 (2014-15)
A GENERAL READER
1. Is this art at all?
- Arthur Danto, “The Artworld,“ Journal of Philosophy LXI, 1964 (PDF)
- George Dickie, “What is Art?; An Institutional Analysis“, in Art and Philosophy, W. E. Kennick (ed), New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979
2. On the (new) politicality of performance
- Jacques Rancière, “The distribution of the sensible: Politics of Aesthetics?”, in The Politics of Aesthetics: The distribution of the Sensible, Continuum, London, 2004 (http://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/rancic3a8re-jacques-politics-aesthetics-distribution-sensible-new-scan.pdf)
- André Lepecki, “Introduction: the political ontology of movement” in Exhausting Dance: Performance and the politics of movement, Routledge, 2006 (also in TkH 18: ‘Dance / Theory: Reloaded’, 2010 (http://www.old.tkh-generator.net/en/casopis/tkh-18)
- Aldo Milohnić, “Artivism“, Maska 90-91, 2005 (also in Transversal: www.eipcp.net/transversal/1203/milohnic/en)
3. Doing and making performances: On performance practice and labor
- Giorgio Agamben, ‘Poiesis and Praxis’, ‘Privation Is Like a Face’, in The Man Without Content, Stanford Ca: Stanford University Press 1999 (PDF)
- Ana Vujanović, “What Do We Actually Do when We… Make Art”. Amfiteatar 2 & Maska 127-130, 2010; Cine Qua Non 8, 2014 (also at http://howtodothingsbytheory.info)
4. Recent issues: collaboration, participation, research, personality & authorship
- Claire Bishop, “The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents“, Artforum, February 2006 (https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Art%20History/Claire%20Bishop/Social-Turn.pdf)
- Jacques Rancière, “The Emancipated Spectator“, a lecture (2004), Artforum, March 2007 (http://members.efn.org/~heroux/The-Emancipated-Spectator-.pdf)
- Kathrin Busch, “Artistic Research and the Poetics of Knowledge“, Art & Research, 2: 2, 2009 (http://www.artandresearch.org.uk/v2n2/pdfs/busch.pdf)
- Bojana Kunst, “Prognosis on Collaboration“, TkH 17 & Le Journal des Laboratoires: “Exhausting Immaterial Labour in Performance“, 2010 (http://www.old.tkh-generator.net/en/casopis/tkh-17-le-journal-des-laboratoires-0)
- Ana Vujanović, “(In) the Person of the Author”, in 4 Choreographic Portraits – booklet, Ghent: les ballets C de la B, 2012 (integral version at http://anavujanovic.info)
5. ‘Dramaturgical troubles’ in contemporary performing arts
- Bojana Kunst, “The Economy of Proximity: Dramaturgical Work in Contemporary Dance”, Performance Research 14: 3, 2009
- Bojana Cvejić, “Dramaturgy: A Friendship of Problems“, TkH 18: ‘Dance/Theory – Reloaded’, 2010 (http://www.old.tkh-generator.net/en/casopis/tkh-18)
