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 10 am.
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Week One (April 2): Introduction
Meet in MCC133
- Course overview
- Research and Exhibition Development Project
View in class:
Week Two
(April 9): Violence, Witnessing, and Public Remembrance
Meet in MCC133
Reading:
- John R Parkinson "How is space public? Implications for spatial policy and democracy" in Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2013, volume 31, pages 682 – 699
- 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
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Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Three (April 16): Display in Struggles over Space, and for Community
Field Trip to Chicano Park (Meet at Chicano Park at 9:20am. Carpool arrangements to be discussed)
Reading:
- Raúl Homero Villa, "La Tierra Mía, Logan Heights, Aztlán" in Barrio-Logos
- Gerardo Francisco Sandoval, "Chicano Park's urban imaginary: Ethnic ties bonded to place and redistributive urban justice" in Lindner & Miriam (eds) The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
- Joanne Sharp, Venda Pollock and Ronan Paddison, "Just Art for a Just City: Public Art and Social Inclusion in Urban Regeneration"(2004)
- Optional: 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
View:
- Additional background on Chicano Park murals:
- Tyree Guyton, "The Heidelberg Project" (Detroit, 1986-present) read and watch video(s) about it at:
- Rick Lowe, "Project Rowe Houses" (Houston, 1993-present) read and watch video(s) about it at:
- Paul Chan, "Waiting for Godot in New Orleans" (2006-7) read and watch video(s) about it at:
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Four (April 23): Counter-Monuments and Dialogic Display Practices
Meet at Geisel Library (in the Redwood Conference Room)
Reading:
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Stevens, Franck & Fazakerly 2012 "Counter-monuments: the anti-monumental and the dialogic"
- Andrew Shanken, "Planning Memory: Living Memorials in the United States during World War II"
- Optional: Michael Rothberg, “Introduction: Theorizing Multidirectional Memory in a Transnational age,” Multidirectional Memory. (p. 1-32).
- Optional: Roger Simon, Chapter 1 "Exhibiting Archival Photographs of Racial Violence as a Pedagogy of Witness" in A Pedagogy of Witnessing, pp. 1-39.
- Optional: Roger Simon, Chapter 2: “Without Sanctuary at the Andy Warhol Museum and the Chicago Historical Society,” in A Pedagogy of Witnessing, pp. 40-74.
View:
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Five (April 30): Dialogic Display in Global Context
Meet at Geisel Library (in Seuss Room)
Reading:
- Yazmany Arboleda and Nabila Alibhaiin "How colour replaces fear" in Luger a & Ren (eds) Art and the City
- Ei- Yi Lu & Phoebe Wong, "Art/movement as a public platform: artistic creations in the sunflower movement and the umbrella movement" in Luger a & Ren (eds) Art and the City
- Gretchen Coombs "Ghana ThinkTank: mobility, reversal and cultural difference," in Luger a & Ren (eds) Art and the City
- Optional: Gustavo Buntinx, "Communities of Sense/Communities of Sentiment: Globalization and the Museum Void in an Extreme Periphery" in Karp et al (eds) Museum Frictions
View:
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Six (May 7) Project Proposal Workshop
Meet at Geisel Library (in Classroom #2)
Read:
Week Seven (May 14) Project Proposal Presentations Review.
Navigating Controversy in Scientific and Religious Display
Meet at Geisel Library (in Seuss Room)
Optional 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
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Eight (May 21): Project Execution Day
Meet in Geisel Library (in Classroom #2)
Visual Interventions in Institutional Spaces
Optional Reading:
- Lisa Corrin, "Mining the Museum"
- Sylvie Frigons, "When Prison Blossoms into Art: Dance in Prison as an Embodied Critical, Creative and Performative Criminology"in Jacobsen (ed) The Poetics of Crime
- Diana Taylor, Selection from "Acts of Transfer" in The Archive and the Repertoire: Cultural Memory and Performance in the Americas (p 16-33)
View:
Week Nine (May 28): Exhibtion Installation
Meet in Geisel Library (in the Seuss Room)
No Reading assigment this week. Focus on preparing exhibition projects.
Week
Ten (June 4): Climate Change in the Public Eye
Meet at Geisel Library (in the Seuss Room)
Read:
- Selections from Fiona Cameron & Brett Neilson (eds) Climate Change and Museum Futures
View:
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Finals Week (8-11 am, Thurs, June 13): FINAL Exhibition Project Documentation/Reflection Due
Meet at Geisel Library (in Classroom #2)
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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
- Chicano Murals in Cesar Chavez Park
- A Mall
- Los Angeles: Museum of Jurassic Technology, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, LA MOCA, LACMA