Constellations: HAA 2401 Special Topics Contemporary - Time, Space, and Being in Contemporary Art, Architecture, and Everyday Life
Taking advantage of the 55th Carnegie International, which is devoted to the theme "Life on Mars," the seminar will explore the ways in which contemporary artists are exploring the widespread sense of the ever-increasing strangeness of everyday life. In parallel, it will also explore the ways in which architects are responding to the challenges to their practice posed by contemporary conditions. Both topics will be considered in the light of methodological questions concerning the nature of the (incomplete) transitions from late modern to contemporary art and architecture. Key texts that treat these topics will be reviewed. The seminar will pay special regard to the ways in which artists and architects are imagining place within larger world pictures, time within asynchronous temporalities, and space as zones of mobility and fixity between both. The 55th Carnegie International is showing at the Carnegie Museum of Art throughout the semester. Its curators will participate in the seminar.
