Post Autonomy reading group - meeting 2 - New Cross Gate

The first meeting discussed the practicalities and context for staging the reading - the second reading will continue to develop those points. A full description of the readings will follow shortly.

From David Goldenberg dged03@hotmail.com

We are inviting participants based in London to join a weekly reading group – artists, curators, art theorists, philosophers and any one seriously interested in debating and undertaking a systematic interpretation of contemporary art issues – The readings will take place at venues in East London. We are also looking for people outside London throughout the UK and abroad to join in the reading via skype and the post autonomy website chat room.

If you are interested can you please send an email to David Goldenberg on dged03@hotmial.com who will send further details and the address where the project is to take place. You can also find further details on the Post Autonomy website – www.postautonomy.co.uk along with background information on the post autonomy project and the context of the reading group and the proposed texts.

To gain access to information on the pa site you will need a username and password, and to take part in the chatroom you will need to obtain a password and username in advance in case of any problems, and to give yourself time to familiarise yourself with the website and how to navigate to the appropriate chatroom. To take part in the reading via skype type in post-autonomy.

The texts that we plan to read are to provide the practical and theoretical framework for implementing post autonomy through understanding the socio/political role of a Euro-centric tradition of art. These readings will partly seek to address the question How do we develop a picture of art and the language to understanding the mechanisms of art and then to address the question is it possible to develop another model of art or are we as practitioners doomed to constantly replicating the same structure, language and set of issues?

The first text that we will read is Dieter Lesage text “The next Documenta”, followed by Dieter Lesage “Empire” (which can be downloaded from efflux), Claire Bishops “Antagonism & Relational Aesthetics”, then a discussion around “Sturtevant’s Understanding of Capitalist time and space.” Additional texts will be added in due course depending on the suitability of the texts to develop our understanding of the issues during the reading.

The reading will develop into a range of projects during 2010.