WEEK 10 QUESTIONING THE CANON / ASCENDANCE OF ALTERNATIVES THE FACTORY Tuesday ART AS SOCIAL PRACTICE Work by the following artists: Krysztof Wodiczko, Actup, Cady Noland, REPOhistory, Guerilla Girls Required Readings: Group Material "Caution! Alternative Space!" (1982) Suggested Reading: Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak "Who Claims Alterity?"(1989) Haim Steinbach. Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, Philip Taafe, Peter Halley, Ashley Bickerton From "Criticism to Complicity" (1986) Art & Language 'Letter to Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler Concerning the Article "The Dematerialization of the Art Object" (1968) Thursday (QUIZZ) PROVOCATIONS AND POETS OF MEMORY Work by the following artists: Suzanne Lacy, Christian Boltanski, Robert Mapplethorpe Required Readings: Karen Finley "I Was Not Expected To Be Talented" (1990) Suggested Readings: Christian Boltanski "Interview with D�mosth�nes Davvetas (1985) Jesse Helmes "Senator Helms Objects to Taxpayers' Funding for Sacrilegious Art (1989) and Robert Mapplethorpe, Interview with Janet Kardon (1988) Lynn Hershman "Video 1980- Present: Videotape as Alternative Space"(1992)