Note: This set of weekly topics, readings, and viewing material is provisional and may change. You are responsible for checking the online syllabus weekly for updated reading assignments, as well as off-site experiences (be sure to refresh your browser to see the most recent version). Readings are due before the class each week and participants are required to post responses to discussion prompts or assignments on TritonEd by Monday at noon.

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Week One (Oct 3):  Introduction

Meet in MCC133

• Course overview
• Research and Exhibition Development Project

View in class:

• Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Address on Removal of Four Confederate Statues https://youtu.be/t0jQTHis3f4
  

Week Two (Oct 10): Witnessing Violence and Remembrance

Meet in MCC133

Reading:

• Erica Lehrer and Cynthia E. Milton, "Introduction: Witnesses to Witnessing" in Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places, eds. Lehrer, Milton & Patterson (2011)
• Heather Igloliorte, "'We were so far away': Exhibiting Inuit Oral Histories of Residential Schools," in Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places eds Lehrer, Milton & Patterson (2011)

View:

• Video: "Eight Inuit Residential School Survivors talk about their experiences" (27 minutes, 2011) on the We Were So Far Away Exhibition Resource Page (toward the bottom)

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Week Three (Oct 17): Display in Struggles over Space, and for Community

Field Trip to Chicano Park (Meet at Chicano Park at 3:30pm. Carpool arrangements to be discussed)

Read:

• Mark Simon Rodriguez, "Art and the Movement: Chicano Murals and Community Space" Chapter 5 in Rethinking the Chicano Movement available on TritonEd and through UCSD library
• Benedict Anderson, "Census, Map, Museum" Chapter 10 in Imagined Communities

View:

• Chicano Park:
  • Background on the murals that might help you understand the images and context at:
    • The Chicano Park website which offers
      • images and descriptions of each mural: http://www.chicanoparksandiego.com/murals/
      • history of the park: http://www.chicanoparksandiego.com/history/index.html
• Tyree Guyton, "The Heidelberg Project" (Detroit, 1986-present) read and watch video(s) about it at:
  • http://www.heidelberg.org/who_we_are/artist.html
• Rick Lowe, "Project Rowe Houses" (Houston, 1993-present) read and watch video(s) about it at:
  • Creative Time article
  • Project website
  • MacArthur video interview
  • Houston Chronicle Article
• Paul Chan, "Waiting for Godot in New Orleans" (2006-7) read and watch video(s) about it at:
  • Video Interview with Chan about the project
  • Creative Time's descriptive website
  • NPR video story on the project
  • NYTimes article
  • Chan's Artist Statement

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Week Four (Oct 24): Collective Memory, Forgetting, Counter-Memory: Toward a Pedagogy of Remembering Otherwise

Meet at Geisel Library (in Classroom #2)

Saturday, Oct 28: Field Trip to LA Museums or Local Exhibitions

Reading:

• Michael Rothberg, “Introduction: Theorizing Multidirectional Memory in a Transnational age,” Multidirectional Memory. (p. 1-32)
• Diana Taylor, Selection from "Acts of Transfer" in The Archive and the Repertoire: Cultural Memory and Performance in the Americas (p 16-33).

• Roger I. Simon, chapters 1 &2: "Exhibiting Archival Photographs of Racial Violence as a Pedagogy of Witness” ; “Without Sanctuary at the Andy Warhol Museum and the Chicago Historical Society,” in A Pedagogy of Witnessing, pp. 1-74.

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Five (Oct 31): Difference and Controversy in Scientific and Religious Display

Meet at Geisel Library (in Classroom 2)

Reading:

• Thomas Gieryn, "Balancing Acts: Science, Enola Gay, and History Wars at The Smithsonian" Ch 12 in The Politics of Display, ed, Sharon MacDonald

  [or: Elizabeth Yakel, "Museums, Management, Media, and Memory: Lessons from the Enola Gay Exhibition," in Libraries & Culture, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Spring, 2000)]

• Richard Sandell, "Purpose, media and message: The St. Mungo museum of religious life and art and the Anne Frank House"- Chapter 3 from Museums, prejudice and the reframing of difference
• Manon Parry, "abNormal: Bodies in Medicine and Culture," in Curatorial Dreams, eds, Butler and Lehrer

View:

 

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Week Six (Nov 7) Project Proposal Presentations/Review Curatorial Impulses and Collecting as National Representational Practice

Meet at Geisel Library (in the Seuss Room)

Read:

• No reading for this week

View:

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Seven (Nov 14) Curatorial Impulses and Collecting as National Representational Practice

Meet at Geisel Library (in Classroom #2)

Read

• Richard Harvey Brown and Beth Davis-Brown "The making of memory: the politics of archives, libraries and museums in the construction of national consciousness" History of the Human Sciences, Vol 11, No 4, 1998

• Lisa Corrin, "Mining the Museum" (MS 381-397)

• François Lionnet, "The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Memory" (MS 92-102)

• alt: Laura Brown "Not Outside the Range: One Feminist Perspective on Psychic Trauma"

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Eight (Nov 21): Exhibtion Installation

Meet at Geisel Library (in the Seuss Room)

Optional Reading:

• Okwui Enwezor, Selections from Archive Fever Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Nine (Nov 28): Public-Private: Visual Interventions in Institutional Space

Meet at Geisel Library (in the Seuss Room)

Read:

• Jody Michelle Lawston and Ashley Lucas, Selections from Razor Wire Women:  Prisoners, Activists, Acholars, and Artists

View:

• Sharon Daniel's, Public Secrets

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Week Ten (Dec 5): Globalization, Collections, and Museums

Meet in MCC 133

Read:

• Gustavo Buntinx, "Communities of Sense/Communities of Sentiment: Globalization and the Museum Void in an Extreme Periphery" (MF 219-241)
• François Lionnet, "The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Memory" (MS 92-102)
• Webb Keane, "Money is No Object: Materiality, Desire and Modernity in Indonesian Society" (e-reserves)
• Holiday Dmitri, "Barbie’s Taiwanese Homecoming"

View:

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Finals Week (Dec 7): FINAL Exhibition Project Documentation/Reflection Due

 

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Plans for Field Trips and Site Visits will be discussed in class. Some possible destinations:

• Balboa Park Museums: SD Museum of Art, Museum of Man, Mingei Museum, Natural History Museum, Museum of Photographic Art, World Beat Center, El Centro Cultural de la Raza
• San Dieog Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla
• Chicano Murals in Cesar Chavez Park
• A Mall
• The Zoo
• Los Angeles: Museum of Jurassic Technology, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, LA MOCA, LACMA