Week 4- Art in Public Spaces (discussion), COMMUNITY THE PRESENTED PROJECTS DEMONSTRATE PROJECT-ORIENTATED COLLABORATIONS AND SOLIDARITY. THE SEMINAR AGUES FOR INTER- COMMUNAL COALITIONS, EMPHASIZING A SHARED GROUND FOR COMMONALTIES OF STRUGGLE. THE SEMINAR ARGUES FOR ARTISTIC WORK TO ENGAGE WITH DISENFRANCHISED COMMUNITIES AND THEIR CONCERNS, WHICH USUALLY DO NOT FIND A WAY INTO THE PUBLIC. IT IS CONCERNED WITH NOTIONS OF COMMUNITY AS SUBVERSIVE SPACE AND ARGUES FROM THE POSITION OF A SORT OF SPIRITUAL BELIEF THEREIN WITHOUT INSCRIBING A FALSE A UNITY. COMMUNITY IS CONSTRUCTED OF PEOPLE WHO SHARE A SOCIAL SPACE, EVENTUALLY SHARE ETHICS. NEVERTHELESS, WE ARE AWARE OF THE BURDEN OF EACH COMMUNITY, WHICH IS ITS BINARY OPPOSITIONALITY: HOMELESS/HOUSED, HIV POSITIVE/ NEGATIVE ET CETERA. THOSE INSCRIPTIONS TEND TO CEMENT THE STATUS QUO. HOW CAN WE WITHIN OUR PRACTICE AVOID GETTING STUCK IN POLARITIES? Slide Presentation: Joseph Beuys "7000 Eichen" (7000 Oaks) Martha Rosler's "If you lived here", Dia Foundation Group Material: "Democracy" project, Dia Foundation Reading: Chantal Mouffe, "Democratic Citizenship and the Political Community", in The Return of the Political (London, New York: Verso, 1993) Suggested Reading: Dot Tuer, "Parables of Community and Culture for a New World (Order)", in, eds.,Questions of Community (Banff, Alberta: Banff Center Press, 1995) Heiner Stachelhaus, Joseph Beuys, (New York, Abbeville, 1991) Film: Yvonne Rainer, "Privilege" (1990) group project We continue the discussion and decide about which project the group will work on with respect to what is feasible and interesting in the given time frame and within the given financial possibilities.