Alchemy, Time, and Temporality

Date

Reading

Practicum

January 4

Themes of the term

Readings

Introduce selves

January 11

Thrift: Life, not as we know it  1-26

Introduce your work

January 18

Thrift Reinventing Invention 29-55. Thing, use, exchange commodity. money.

What is a charged object?

Local currency game.

January 25

Thrift Reinventing Invention 29-55. Thing, use, exchange commodity. money.

February 1

Read Thrift 133-150, re read movement, performance, dance.

Artaud 84-104, Theatre of Cruelty (Ben Simpson, Katherine Lauriault, Sophie Girard

February 8

Show film (animation Protéigon; Malcolm Sutherland Jeu de forme), vs Frankensteins Ghosts, vs Abramovich Ulay. Keersmacker, Pina?, (Dumb Type)  Show installation vs. experiments: Ouija, and Memory.

Homework: Adapt Alexander to your own preferred medium or practice.

February 15

Alexander 572-632: example of a living process (David Silveira, Julia Wolfe, Brent Burelle)

Brainstorming Session: - prepare for presentations

February 17

Tirtza Even talk, 1:00 PM, Hexagram EV11-705

February 22

(break) Read Lightman Einstein’s Dream.  LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea. Transmutation:  LeGuin,“Bones of the Earth”

Decide on groups, meta-groups: (1) TD, (2) documentation, (3) pub, (4) logistics

February 29

Thrift 133-150: movement, performance, dance (Dario Farina, Chris Drogaris, Joseph Tran)

March 7

Thrift 198-219: infrastructure (Marie-Joelle Gingras, Catherine Poirier)

March 14

Affect (Thrift 171-188), field, topology (Nina Bouchard, Tina Salameh)

Present of project proposals. Group discussion. Whyte Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

March 21

Alexander xiv-136. Process, Vincent

In class studio work and individual sessions with instructor.

March 28

Ouija and Einstein’s Dreams

In class studio work and individual sessions with instructor.

April 3 - 9

Integrated installation / experiment

Site prep fi needed

     April 4

Presentations

Documentation