WORKSHOP: Maria Lind

WORKSHOP: Dave McKenzie

Theory Night: Poetry today, totally alive

Hi everyone, next week, July 21st at 7:30pm (At BFI), we will be reading contemporary poetry as well as discussing issues surrounding the state of contemporary poetry.  Scott graciously provided these readings and will help us along in our conversation.

The readings:

Frederick Seidel, who is a total contrast to most modern poets. He doesn’t teach, doesn’t live in America, is independently wealthy, writes about his ostentatious wealth (his Ducati motorcycle for instance), and yet is very beloved by the hippest of hip young poets. He has a ton of audio clips on his homepage: http://us.macmillan.com/author/frederickseidel

A reading by Terrence Hayes, a mid-career poet who treads the line between experimental and confessional very well:
http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/terrance_hayes/the_blue_seuss.shtml

contemporary poetry

Show Your Work, zapruder essay on criticism

The End of Verse, newsweek article

xxo

Ruba

Theory night at MOCA Book Club

Let’s have a critical discussion of this book in light of today’s art world!

Theory Night: Tourism!?/?

Hi everyone,

The next theory night will take place on June 16th at 7pm and we will meet at a new location on this date. Please contact me for the address, or you will receive it closer to the meeting in an email.

Our topic is “tourism.” Our readings, Hakim Bey’s “Overcoming Tourism” (suggested by Jillian), Sandra Teresa Hyde’s “Sex Tourism Practices,” and Jonathan Culler’s “Semiotics of Tourism.”  I would also read this book review and maybe even the book (it’s really short).

Please feel free to read other related texts and to bring other issues to the table, I think we can focus on art and tourism, sex tourism, etc. This will probably continue on into more sessions in future…

See you soon!

xoRuba

Theory Night: Anthropology and Counterinsurgency

Hi everyone,

Next week May 27th at 7:30pm, we will be reading, as per Nick’s suggestion, a text by Montgomery McFate called Anthropology and Counterinsurgency. And a text by Franz Boas.

Here are links to suggested reading that might be of interest as well:

http://www.aaanet.org/issues/policy-advocacy/Statement-on-HTS.cfm

http://homepages.stmartin.edu/fac_staff/dprice/CW-PUB.htm

http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/elh9/Vietnamand%20ethnographic%20authority3.pdf

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20001120/price

See you then!

Theory Night: Conrad

Next theory night is Tuesday May 12th at 7:30pm  and we are discussing Joseph Condrad’s “Heart of Darkness.”

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/526/526.txt

Start reading and details will follow.

xo Ruba

Theory Night: Virilio (postponed even further till April 21st

Hey everyone,

Christy won’t be here next week and since she suggested the reading, I think it makes sense to wait until April 21st to discuss, this will give us even more time to read. So you should have read the whole text here.

April 21st, 7:30, theory night at BFI.

xo

Theory Night: Paul Virilio (postponed till April 14th)

Tuesday the 7th, the Company (a space in LA) will be screening videos at the Sagamore, I think this will be good to attend, info below, and you must RSVP:

The Company Presents: A Video Screening at the Sagamore, Miami Beach, April 7, 2009 at 8PM
Skip Arnold, Ingibjörg Birgisdottir, Jen DeNike, Martin Durazo, Jesse Reding Fleming, Kate Gilmore, Jiae Hwang, David Jones, Annika Larsson, Aaron Garber Maikovska, Shana Moulton, Julie Orser, Nicholas C. Raftis III, David Raymond, Mariah Robertson, Jimmy Joe Roche, Brandon Rosenbluth, Oscar Miguel Santos a.k.a. Sister Mantos, Julia Sherman, and John Sturgeon.

The screening will start at 8pm on Tuesday April 7, 2009. RSVP required: mail to rsvp@thecompanyart.com.

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So the reading for April 14th, 2009 @ 7:30 PM at BFI as per Christy’s suggestion is Paul Virilio’s The Vision Machine. Please read as much as you can, you have almost two weeks to finish.

See you everywhere!!

xxo

Theory Night: Cornel West

Tuesday, March 31st, 7:30 pm at BFI we will meet to discuss Cornel West’s The New Cultural Politics of Difference.

See you then!

xo