PAPER: You must write a final paper, as a form of critical “meditation,” on one (or more) case study artworks or exhibitions covered in class.

PAPER: You must write a final paper, as a form of critical “meditation,” on one (or more) case study artworks or exhibitions covered in class. This paper must also address, in depth, 2 -3 texts covered in class. Only one text may be from the same week as the case study. The idea is to reflect upon a combination of artworks and texts covered over the entire 10 weeks of our class. Your questions are prompts for you to return to the artworks/exhibitions/texts and dig deeper on what you initially found interesting. Please reference the Chicago Manuel of Style for footnotes etc. (posted on canvas)

Paper length: 2000- 3000 words

Case Studies: You may select from either the case studies covered in required reading and/or those case studies covered in the supplemental reading. You may add other artworks to the discussion, but you must focus your primary analysis on a case study work covered in class. These include:

Oscar Masotta, To Induce the Spirit of the Image, WEEK 1, “Thinking”

Mary Kelly, The Practical Past, “Hermeneutics”

Alexandra Weltz & Andreas Pichler, Negri: The Revolt that Never End”, “Empire”

Marcel Duchamp, The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition, “Readymade”

Jim Hubbard, United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, “AIDS demographics”

Elisabeth Sussman, et. al., 1993 Whitney Biennial, “Identity Politics”

Yael Bartana, Malka Germania “Feminism/Resistance”

Omar Mismar, Schmitt, You and Me, “Friend/Enemy”

Mary Kelly, et. al., On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time “History/Love”