ART READS
 

Saturday, November 16 2013, 1-8 pm

DiscLab’s CAMP IN/OUT at 1335MABINI: ART READS

Preparing at the Waiting Room – A late and close reading of few materials on criticality

Preparing at the Waiting Room aims to gather individuals to discuss selected texts on criticality. It is initiated by Renan Laru-an in preparation for his research paper entitled Working before, with acritical, a contribution to the culminating project of DiscLab on criticality.

About the paper

Working title: Working before, with acritical

The paper attempts to theorize the possibility of operating before the state of being critical, a juncture characterized by the absence of criticality and perhaps its manifestations. Through a deeper articulation of acritical, the trajectory of the paper follows an itinerant method of questioning the position of complicity, vulnerability, naiveté, and frustration in forming ways of thinking through, looking at, and operating with criticality. It uses the context of digital/virtual and crosses the boundaries of contemporary visual culture to speculate and chart arbitrary points to navigate the notion of initiating criticality.

Keywords: acritical, emerging, starting, complicity, vulnerability, naivete, frustration, itinerant practices, contemporary arts, digital/virtual criticism

Reading materials

Criticality or Truth? David Riff (2008)
The Habitus of the Critical: On the Limits of Reflexive Practice, Helmut Draxler (2007)
What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue, Judith Butler (2001)
What is Critique? Suspension and Recomposition in Textual and Social Machines, Gerald Rauning (2008)
Critique as Counter-Hegemonic Intervention, Chantal Mouffe (2008)
From Criticism to Critique to Criticality, Irit Rogoff (2003)

Schedule and venue of readings

1:00-2:00 | Criticality or Truth? David Riff (2008)
2:00-2:15 | Break
2:15-3:15 | The Habitus of the Critical: On the Limits of Reflexive Practice, Helmut Draxler (2007)
3:15-3:30 | Break
3:30-4:30 | What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue, Judith Butler (2001)
4:30-4:45 | Break
4:45-5:45 | What is Critique? Suspension and Recomposition in Textual and Social Machines, Gerald Rauning (2008)
5:45-6:00 | Break
6:00-7:00 | Critique as Counter-Hegemonic Intervention, Chantal Mouffe (2008)
7:00-7:15 | Break
7:15-8:15 | From Criticism to Critique to Criticality, Irit Rogoff (2003)