Institutional

Next week we are looking at a number of practices that question certain accepted ideas about art and the art institution. Michael Asher will be at the centre of this discussion - read up on him.

There are three readings from the suggested texts attached to the course on the library database.

Peltomaki, Kirsi. Situation Aesthetics: The Work of Michael Asher. Cambridge, Mass.: 

MIT Press, 2010. 

Alberro, Alexander, and Blake Stimson. Institutional Critique : An Anthology of Artists' 

Writings. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. 

"On Three Works by Michael Asher." See This Sound : Promises of Sound and Vision.  Köln, Linz: König, 2009.

The lecture will begin with a discussion of the Institutional Theory of Art (posited by Arthur Danto in 1964).

Here is a useful discussion of the idea:
InstitutionalTheory.pdf