OPENtalk:Spectacles of the Real: Truth and Representation in Art and Literature

OPENSOURCE Art is providing online readings in pdf format as a resource for investigating and understanding the upcoming show Spectacles of the Real.
The readings were selected from titles that helped shape the ideas behind the exhibition, which takes place during March at OPENSOURCE Art and the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (http://www.iprh.uiuc.edu/). The readings, combined with discusion at the show spaces, offer a way to more fully appreciate the visual and theoretical connections in the show.

You are invited to the following dates to discuss the readings and critique the works presented.

OPENSOURCE on Saturday March 4, Noon-2pm
IPRH on Monday March 27, 7-9pm

Please follow the link below for individual downloadable files.

Chapter 5: The Return of the Real
The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century
Hal Foster, 1996
An October Book, The MIT Press

The Long Walk of the Situationist International
by Greil Marcus
Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Text and Documents
Edited by Tom Mcdonough
An October Book, The MIT Press

Anthrax R Us
by Susan Willis.
Social Text 73 (Winter, 2002)

Relational form
by Nicolas Bourriaud (1998)
From Relational Aesthetics

Excerpts from Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag, 2003
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Ch. 1 from Things
edited by Bill brown.

The Story of K
Matthew Stadler

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