[-empyre-] Reading List and January 2021 Hello! Re: Open call until February 1st

Sat Jan 30 03:16:39 AEDT 2021

Hi all,

I love the bookshelf prompt, it's encouraging me to emerge from lurk status
and celebrate a recent book binge.

Currently, I've got two categories of "to read" materials going. The first
is for a class on creative collaboration I'm teaching with my collaborator
Catalina Alvarez at Abrons Art Center via the School of Making Thinking.
The class is called *The Collaboration Agreement: Designing for Creative
Conflict and Consent
<http://www.theschoolofmakingthinking.com/classes.html> *and is designed
for creative collaborators to develop a collaboration agreement that
functions as a living contract to guide ethical and vibrant creativity. It
takes place remotely Wednesday evenings in April.

Catalina and I are sharing a big pile of relevant books and texts... and
we're planning a self-directed "reading residency" (a lifelong dream!) to
tear through these materials and make final reading selections.

*Books:*

John-Steiner, Vera. *Creative Collaboration*. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000.

Bishop, Claire. *Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of
Spectatorship*. London: Verso, 2012.

Brown, Adrienne Maree. *Emergent Strateg*y. CA: AK Press, 2017.

de Wachter, Ellen Mara. *Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration*.
London: Phaidon, 2017.

Sholette, Gregory and Blake Stimson, eds. *Collectivism after Modernism:
The Art of Social Imagination After 1945*. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2007.

Sholette, Gregory. *Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise
Culture*. London: Pluto Press, 2011.

Grant, H. Kester. *Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in
Modern Art*. CA: UC Press, 2013.

*Not exactly books:*

*Manifesto for Tender Collaborative Work* by press_press, Baltimore
<https://presspress.info/content/3-document/2-manifesto-for-tender-collaborative-work/a-tender-talk.pdf>

The cooperative handbook <https://loomio.coop/working_together> by Loomio,
an open source worker-owned software company in New Zealand

Paul Ryan's Threeing
<http://earthscore.org/New%20Format/Curriculae/threeing_curriculum.html>
concept

May excellent resources <https://studycollaboration.com/#resources>from The
Study Center for Group Work.

Finally, I've also been reading some *stuff not related to collaboration*,
namely Emily St. John Mandel's *The Glass Hotel*, and Hilary Mantel's novel
on the French Revolution, *A Place of Greater Safety*, both of which have
some disturbing parallels to current economic and political situations IRL.

*Bio:*

I'm an artist, curator, writer, and digital experience designer. I work
with archives, digital tools, and collaboration to develop exhibitions,
writing, and multimedia projects that are focussed on exploring time,
ecology, governance, idealism, and futility. I also work with teams to make
software and websites for (and sometimes about) money.

I've written about Ant Farm, the Videofreex, *Radical Software* and other
topics related to media art for publications including *Afterimage*,*
Intercourse*, and *The Creators Project*. In 2016 I co-curated *The Present
Is the Form of All Life**,* an exhibition of the time capsule works of Ant
Farm, and their successor group LST, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.

I'm one half of Epicurean Endocrinology – a collaborative citizen-scientist
performance art and installation project with Byron Rich – that uses the
practices and conventions of science and cooking to investigate gender
constructions and endocrine disruptors in the built environment.

Currently, I'm working on a project (collaboratively of course) to preserve
the Ant Farm-designed Antioch College Art Building, and making an
experimental documentary about the architectural and institutional traces
of a series of pedagogical experiments originating from Antioch's
alternative approach to education.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 6:00 PM Amanda McDonald Crowley <
amandamcdc at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi all, and thanks Renate for the prompt.
>
> I've been a frequent reader and occasional contributor to this generous
> space pretty much since its inception!!
>
> Currently on my desk or in my reading pile - totally eclectic and in no
> particular order:
>
> Legacy Russell, *Glitch Feminism: a manifesto*, 2020, Verso Books
> Zadie Smith, *Intimations*, 2020, Penguin Books
> Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World,
> 1985, Oxford University Press
> Luz Calvo & Catriona Rueda Esquibel Deloconize Your Diet: plant-based
> Mexican American Recipes for Health and Healing, 2017, Arsenal Pulp Press
> Michael Rakowitz and friends, A House Without a Date Palm Will Never
> Starve, 2019, Art Books Publishing in Association with Plinth
> Chloë Bass, #sky #nofilter, 2020, Double Cross Press
> Hilary Cottam, Radical Help: How We Can Remake Relationships Between Us
> and Revolutionise the Welfare State, 2018, Virago Press
> James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, 2018,
> Verso
> McKenzie Wark, capitalism is dead is this something worse? 2019, Verso
> Questlove, Something to Food About, 2016, Penguin Random House
> Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elain Gan, Nils Bubandt (eds) Arts of Living
> on a Damaged Planet, 2017, University of Minnesota Press
> and I have on pre-order:
>
>
> A recent bio:
>
> *Amanda McDonald Crowley* is a cultural worker, curator, and educator.
> Amanda works at the intersection of art, science, and technology; and
> supports public art platforms that bring together professionals and
> amateurs from varied disciplines to generate dialogue and create space for
> audience engagement.
>
> Amanda is with Mary Mattingly on Swale; LigoranoReese on School of Good
> Citizenship; has advisory roles on artist-led projects including Vibha
> Galhotra’s S.O.U.L Foundation, Delhi; Juanli Carrión’s OSS Project NY; Di
> Mainstone’s Human Harp, UK; and in 2019 curated Amy Khoshbin’s TinyScissors
> pop-up tattoo parlor for Detroit Art Week. [Unfortunately I've just had to
> scratch the note that I was working towards the exhibition for SLSA2021 at
> U Michigan as they have very sadly decided that they cannot proceed with an
> exhibition to accompany the symposium in our current complicated times.]
>
> Amanda has held leadership positions with Eyebeam in NYC, Australian
> Network for Art and Technology, ISEA2004, Helsinki, Adelaide Festival 2002,
> and has done curatorial residencies at HIAP (Finland), Santa Fe Art
> Institute (USA), Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), Sarai (India), and Banff
> Center for the Arts (Canada).A recent bio
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:37 PM Renate Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
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>> Thanks Cristina for making this post and introducing yourself.  We are
>> thrilled you have joined us.  Just a reminder to all of our members to post
>> your "bookshelf" and a recent bio to introduce yourself.
>>
>> Thanks. Renate
>>
>> Renate Ferro
>> Visiting Associate Professor
>> Director of Undergraduate Studies
>> Department of Art
>> Tjaden Hall 306
>> rferro at cornell.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/25/21, 4:22 PM, "empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on
>> behalf of Albu, Cristina" <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on
>> behalf of albuc at umkc.edu> wrote:
>>
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>
> --
> Amanda McDonald Crowley
> curator/ cultural worker/ educator
> publicartaction.net
> instagram, twitter, facebook, skype, venmo || @amandamcdc
>
> What I'm currently up to:
>
> OSS Project Inc Board member Please donate if you are able to support our
> work
> <https://outerseedshadow.org/project/fall-fundraising-fermentation-workshop/>
> . OSS Project Connects communities with artists to create gardens as
> platforms to empower, celebrate and reclaim identity and knowledge.
>
> School of Good Citizenship <http://schoolofgoodcitizenship.org>: a
> project by LigoranoReese, Charlotte, Summer and Fall 2020
>
> Swale <https://www.swalenyc.org/>, founded by Mary Mattingly, Governors
> Island. 2020
>
> Black Lives Matter: resources and toolkits
> <https://blacklivesmatter.com/resources/>
> <https://blacklivesmatter.com/resources/>
>
> I live and work on Lenni Lenape Lands and acknowledge the traditional
> Indigenous owners of the land: past, present, and future.
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