Summary Post Autonomy Reading group
Summary of meeting 1
Venue – Eleana’s flat Leytonstone
Who attended – David, Eleana, Nicos, Emily, Sacha
Summary of event
Summary of meeting 2
Venue – Alia’s house New Cross Gate
Who attended – Jeremy, Nazneen, Alia, Nicos, Cube Sherman + friend, David. Online- Maja Ciric, Hamja Ahsan
Summary of evening
General questions, how to use the technology, co-ordinate online & participants in the venue.
Brief introduction
The objective of the PA reading group
Rehearsal for radio program + other projects
What has happened so far – brief summary of the last discussion
What is to happen tonight
Structure of the evening/shape of the discussion + follow up
The reason for selecting the text
How to read & use the text
Use the text as a thread of thinking to gell together reflection on the actual capacity to implement another model of art.
Summary of talk
The talk within the space of post autonomy, the image of the waiting room
A broad introduction into the use of language, to understand art within the system of art. The current role of art criticism, current fashion in political art
The role of institutions – art schools & museums in the UK
The changed role of art institutions on Europe main land
Who have considered that Democracy and the political are too important for society and its institutions to protect.
The role of language and speech within the current PA project
The collapse and failure of institutional critique and critical language.
The end of the role of the critic in art
How do we use language & theory to make observations about art?
Observations about art
Truth statements
The role of speech
Post Modernist institutions
The current understanding and use of PA in The Nederlands
Specific statements about the observations made during the evening
If we are unable to agree that self –descriptions/ statements about art are possible now, what are we to make of the statements made during the evening and any other statements about art?
How are we to make any valid statements about art at all, including the observations and descriptions that are made by Lesage?
How do we understand this debate and use of speech within the context of PA?
Observations about the event
Organisational structure of the event
Protocol for reading the text
Developing reading and research into the text
The questions and issues that we need to raise prior to reading the text
What is the role of the text?
How is the reading to take place?
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How are subsequent texts to be added onto the current text
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Research into related issues that take us away from the text?
What is the role of people who come along to the reading group?
Meeting 3
