Irene V. Small. Medium Aspecificity/Autopoietic Form. Contemporary Art,edited by Alexander Dumbadze & Suzanne Hudson (pp.117 -124)

Diana Coole & Samantha Frost. Introducing the New Materialisms. New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and politics (pp. 1 - 43)

Anuradha Vikram. “Notes Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Social Practice” insufficiently addresses problems it raises. ArtPractical.com

Igor Kopytoff. The Cultural Biography of Things. The Social Life of Things edited by Arjun Appadurai (pp. 64-91)

Graham Harman. The Third Table. Documenta (13): 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts (Series # 085)

Summary of The Third Table

Thomas Nagel. What is it Like to be a Bat? The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, 4 (pp. 435-450)

John Baillie. An Essay on the Sublime (1747)

These are the primary texts for Social Object Organic Line, taking place at the Institute for American Art this October.  Take a look at the weeks schedule to see which texts correspond to which gatherings.  http://instituteforamericanart.tumblr.com/sool

Maurice Merleau - Ponty. Eye of the Mind. Essays on Painting (pp. 121 - 149).

Ian Bogost. Carpentry. Alien Phenomenology (pp. 85 - 111)

Timothy Morton. Introduction. Realist Magic (pp. 15 - 37)

Anthony Marcellini & Matthew David Rana. Notes Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Social Practice. ArtPractical.com

It’s less than a month till the beginning of Social Object Organic Line art the IfAA. October  15 to 19 in Portland, ME: I’ll post the schedule in the next few days.

We hope that you will be able to join us as Jimmy Riordan develops a series of public projects with the Institute for American Art. As the schedule above details, these projects will happen over several days at different times throughout the day. Each of these events will present a different caveat within philosophy, art, social practice, and community engagement. These workshops, talks, screenings, and reading groups are meant to be introductions to the rather dense topic of new materialism, as presented through the fields of phenomenology, science, participation, and critique. We have a lot to discuss, and although Jimmy and I have been doing our research, neither of us is an expert in the breadth of ideas present here. Instead, we are looking to figure it out. Some rhetorical questions we are considering:

What does social practice make?

Is art a hyperobject?

Can you practice philosophy through doing instead of writing?

How can materialist philosophies contribute to social practice/social justice?

How do aesthetics relate to causality?

threeAhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL08rtMFIc2oztoJjRpaHJIOvLUIXPbuzu

This playlist is comprised of 7 videos presenting social practice and relational art in various lights. The link above will take you to YOUTUBE, where you can better navigate the videos.

The videos included are as follows:

1.Claire Bishop’s presenting at Cooper Union as part of Creative Times Living as Form, 2011.

        - Bishop presents the conclusion of her book Artificial Hells.

2. Art Toughtz: Relational Aesthetics

        - Youngman parodies relational art.

3. 2010 interview with Liam Gillick

        - Gillick was one of the artists in Traffic, the 1996 exhibit that introduced   

           the term relational art.

4. Art Safari: Relational Art - Is it an ism?

        - A cheesy episode of the BBC’s Art Safari that tries to explain relational

           art.

5. Nato Thompson speaks about art and politics at the 2014 Creative Time Summit.

6. Art Bound: Social Practice

        - Three examples of Southern California social practice.

7. 2012 Art Place America promotional video

        - Though this project is not concerned specifically with the subject of

           creative placemaking, this video show how, through socially engaged art,

           art making has become entangled in redevelopment, community