Mildred’s Lane, Session 2
June 16t thru July 4, 2008
RETAIL21c.
Hosted by J. Morgan Puett
Guest Artists and Presenters:
June 17- Alexander Gray, Gallerist (in NYC)
June 18- J. Morgan Puett, Artist (in NYC)
June 20- Mark Dion, Artist (in Philadelphia)
June 21-Barbara DeVries, Writer, Designer,
Christy Gast . Artist
June 23/24- Hope Ginsburg, Artist
June 27- Jeffrey Jenkins, artist
Rebecca Purcell, artist/art director
June 28- Natalie Jeremijenko, Artist
Dalton Conley, Sociologist
July 2- J. Walker Tufts, Artist , Businessman
July 3- Allison Smith, Artist
Other Guest involvements To Be Announced:
Dr. Marie ‘Bridget’ Shurkus, Contemporary Art Theorist
Brian Tolle, artist
Brian Clyne, Digital Designer
Christine Hill: Skyping from Berlin
Amy Yoes, Artist
Jorge Colombo, Artist
Kathryn Taylor, Stitcher, Patternmaker
Robin Richman, Artist/ Retailer
William Bryan Purcell, Artist
With
Research assistant, Caroline Woolard
Food mentor, Athena Kokoronis
Project Manager, Monique Milleson
Artist –in– residence, Boris Richter, Germany.
General Note: The workstyles program will vary day to day. Researching, working, cooking, eating, comportment and presentations form our days. Each week we will experience lectures, presentation and events by an ongoing stream of visiting artists. Mildred’s Lane program is gesamptkunstwerk, an all-encompassing approach to art practice and life, (i.e., being as a practice.)
Outline of daily schedules, subject to shift and slip.
8:ooam- Exercise (optional)
9:00am- Summer kitchen continental breakfast
10:00am- Research reading
12:noon- Lunch
1:00pm- Museum work
5:00pm- Free time, rest
7:pm- Presentations and dinner
Syllabus
June 16th Rendevous in NYC, NY
Book opening , Alastair Gordon
“Spaced Out: psychedelic environments”
From 6PM to 9PM
At
Ramscale,
463 West Street, Penthouse
(Bethune/West Side Highway/Greenwich Village)
Hosted by:
Charles Mier/Rizzoli USA
Michele Oka Doner, Sean Strub, John Berendt
Murray and Gail Bruce/Ramscale
Barbara and Alastair Gordon/Gordon de Vries Studio
June 16th , 17th-
Presentation by Alexander Gray.
Install Alexander Gray Gallery
Mildred’ s Lane Show
Wednesday, June 18th-
Presentation by J. Morgan Puett
Mildred’s Lane Opening at Alexander Gray
526 Wst 26th Street, 10th floor
Chelsea, New York City, NY
Thursday, June 19th -
10:00am- Presentation by Research Assistant, Caroline Woolard
Afternoon- NYC Field trips
Moss
Comme des Garsons
Friedmans
And more
Friday, June 20th –travel
Mark Dion
Opening at Bartram’s Garden with presentation by Mark Dion
Philadelphia, Pa.
Saturday, June 21st-
Guest Artists: Christy Gast, Barbara DeVries (“The Image of Women in Retail Marketing and Advertising”)
Mildred’s Lane Afternoon orientation and tour
6:00- Lectures
7:30 – Dinner with guest chef Karak Canal
Sunday, June 22nd-
Day Off
Monday, June 23rd-
!0:00- All day Field Trip with Hope Ginsburg to Spring Hill Farm
Tuesday, June 24th-
Guest Artist: Hope Ginsburg
10:00am think tank with Hope Ginsburg ‘Sponge’
1:00- Project presentations
6:00- Lecture
Wednesday, June 25th-
10:00- Readings and discussion (see below)
1:00- Project presentations
Thursday, June 26th-
10:00- Readings and discussion (see below)
1:00- Project presentations
Friday, June 27th-
Guest Artists: Jeffrey Jenkins and Rebecca Purcelll
4:00- Lectures
Cocktails in the Quarry followed by dinner with guests
Saturday, June 28th-
Guest Artists: Natalie Jermijenko and Dalton Conley
5:00 Cocktails in the quarry
6:00 Lectures
8:30 Dinner with guests
Sunday, June 29th-
Day Off
Monday, June 30th-
10:00- Readings and discussion (see below)
1:00- Project presentations
6:00- Presentation by Jason Simon, and
Screening of “Vera”
Tuesday, July 1st-
10:00- Readings and discussion (see below)
1:00- Project presentations
Evening Presentation TBA
Wednesday, July 2nd-
Visiting Artist: J. Walker Tufts
10:00- Readings and discussion (see below)
1:00- Project presentations
6:00 Lecture
Thursday, July 3
Visiting Artist: Alison Smith
10:00- Readings and discussion (see below)
1:00- Project presentations
6:00 Lecture
Closing dinner and bonfire
Friday, July 4th-
Wrap up Discussion and Future Agendas
Hand Out Readings
Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet , “A Conversation: What is it? What is it for?”
Gilles Deleuze, “Postscripts to Control Societies”
Isabelle Stengers, “Complexity: A Fad?”
Isabelle Stengers, “ A Cosmopolitics_Risk, Hope, Change”, A conversation with Mary Zournazi
Jeffrey T. Nealon, “Genealogies of Capitalism: Foucault with Deleuze and Jameson”
Brian Massumi, “Navigating Moments” A conversation with Mary Zournazi
Brian Massumi, “the Autonomy of Affect”
Bruno Latour,” A Collective of Humans and Non Humans”.
Helen Molesworth, “Work Ethic”.
Mary Jane Jacob, “J. Morgan Puett: Cottage Industry”
Excerpts from John Protevi’s “Geophilosophy”
Selected Bibliography
Bruce Mao edited by Kyo Maclear with Bart Testa, LIFE STYLE,
(Phaidon 200 ).
Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, DIALOGUES, (Revised edition translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, Columbia University Press New York 2007).
Gilles Deleuze, NEGOTIATIONS, ( )
Brian Massumi, “Parables of the Virtual”, (Duke University Press 2002).
Isabelle Stengers, “Power and Invention: Situating Science”, (Forward by Bruno Latour, Translated by Paul Bailis for “Theory Out of Bounds: Vol.10”,
University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota-London).
Bruno Latour, “Pandora’s Hope: Esays on the Reality of Science Studies”, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. -London, England 1999)
Helen Molesworth, “Work Ethic”, (Baltimore Museum of Art and Penn State University Press).
Edited by Barbara Burman, “The Culture of Sewing: Gender Consumption and Home Dressmaking”, (1999)
Mary Jane Jacob, editor, “On the Being of Being an Artist”, (SAIC 2006)
Joan Livingston and John Ploof, “The Object of Labor: Art , Cloth and Cultural Production” ( MIT Press 2007 )
Jeffrey T. Nealon, “Foucault Beyond Foucault:Power and its Intensification Since 1984”, (Stanford University Press 2008).
Edited by Mary Zournazi,”Hope: New Philosophies for Change”, (Routledge-Taylor & Francis Group 200 ).
Edited By Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, “Making things Public: Atmosphere of democracy”, (ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, MIT Press 2005).
Bruno Latour, “Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor –Network -Theory”, ( Oxford University Press 2005 ).
Edited by Dalton Conley, “Wealth and Poverty in America: A Reader”, (Blackwell Publishing 2002).
