Fall 2008: ART 8400: Theoretical Constructions in Contemporary Art
First Year Graduate Seminar

Professors: Ali Momeni, Jenny Schmid

This course focuses on theories of contemporary art and how they have created a foundation for current art practices. In addition to reflecting on theory, this class seeks to collectively explore new paradigms in the ways that artists are working today- through the creation of collectives, the globalized community and artist-as-curator model. Can post-modernism shift to not just operate as a resistance against an historical Western paradigm, but rather formulate new approaches that are based in a globalized, less provincial and more dynamic way of thinking?

Here are links to the syllabus/course description, the class blog, and the assigned readings.

What Dhruvi and I do on a Sunday in Minneapolis....

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we never come a feet a venue
well that must have mean one love you
still hold alley for you ye i
never let them hood wink i venue
now make hood hood wink you at the venue
ye ah ah ha,

a a a a a a a a a a
ye
ah ah ah

parade confeti paper view
hero and heru, move your iris and selicio
hey
it is the best of the indio
it is the best of the indio
fly over them en solo, solo

metaphorical radio
oh oh, ye
green jack spaniard in the gheto
black rooster crow
oh oh oh
say so
blacker sun rooster oh
ah ah ah

4:19 minutes (8 MB)