Re-engaging with space, we will question the art of arranging space and re-arranged spaces in this class. The epistemological angle from which an audience gains access to material and textual resources influences not only exposure, but also understanding. The politics of knowledge, then, cannot be separated from the politics of curatorship.
Preparation:
Boris Groys, "Politics of Installation"
Miguel Hernandez-Navarro's interview with Simon Critchley, "Creating Interstices: On Ethics, Politics, and Curatorship", and his own "The Curator's Demands: Towards an Ethics of Commitment"
Preface from Michel Foucault's The Order of Things