Phase 1: Terms
Times are CET (Swedish time)
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Tuesday 5 Sept 16:00-18:30 session 1
- “What” is the course about; “why?” and “how?
- How can you access reading materials and other sources used in the course?
- What are your tasks as a course participant?
- Practical and planning issues: What are your questions for me and for the administrators?
- What happens on Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th?
- The proposed background agreement on how we will work together for this course that I ask you to consider
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Wednesday 6 Sept 16:00-18:30 session 2
Part 1: “The Neighbour”. Placing “the friend” in context with other terms. Sources we look at together in the session:
A. Oda Projesi (Room Project) @ Creative Time Summit 2012 | Making (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPE_9AE_W3Q
B. Prof. Nancy L. Rosenblum (opening section of the 2015 lecture on The Good Neighbour Nation: The democracy of everyday life) http://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/government/20150521_1830_goodNeighbourNation.mp4
Part 2: Introductions: 5 minutes each: Why I took this course? The practice / activity that I want to develop through the course.
Part 3: Listening Seminar: Feminist Durational Reading Group
C. https://soundcloud.com/user-871195834/4-organising-see-u-th3re We listen together, then discuss. See also: https://www.feministduration.com/
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Thursday 7 Sept 16:00-19:30 session 3
Part 1: “Comrades” and “Elective Affinities” Placing “the friend” in context with other terms.Sources we look at together in the session:
E. Political theorist Jodi Dean speaks with Jordan T. Camp about Dean’s (2019) book, Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging (Verso). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWX1KhZVLR4 Links to an external site. If you want to follow up, you can look at the video F. “Jodi Dean – From Allies to Comrades” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou8bqbfcNaU
Part 2: Introductions: 5 minutes each: Why I took this course? The practice / activity that I want to develop through the course.
Part 3: Reading two short texts together. (Some thoughts about genre, and reading.)
G. Some notes on political imaginaries of liberalism.
Download Some notes on political imaginaries of liberalism.
H. Grace Samboh (2016) “TAKING AND GIVING: Friendship as a way of thinking and doing Download TAKING AND GIVING: Friendship as a way of thinking and doing” (a paper Presented at the ST. Paul St. Curatorial Symposium 2016, Auckland, New Zealand.)
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Tuesday 19 Sept 16:00-19:30 session 4
16:30-17:30 Reading seminar: We read before the meeting the following texts:
I. Silvia Franceschini’s “Zones of Affinity”
J. Bojana Piškur’s “Politicization of Friendship”
K. MW (2023) Introduction and Chapter “Starting from the Middle” & “Another Possible is World”
Download “Starting from the Middle” & “Another Possible is World” from Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life, pp. 21-23 & pp. 288-293. )
We then discuss: (i) what is the core purpose of each text?; (ii) what is the function of the term “friendship”/ “the friend” within the text-if any?; (iii) what difficulties, if any, are there in reading these texts?
18:00-19:30 Viewing seminar: We together watch a contemporary dance performance. “Togethering, a Group Solo” (2015) – Alice Chauchat. https://vimeo.com/204867499 “
We then discuss: (i) what is the relationship between this work and the themes in our course? (ii) can we work with works and practices that are not genres of text that are not texts?
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Thursday 21 Sept 16:00-19:30 session 5
16:00-17:30 Guest Speaker: Nick Aikens (curator, researcher, & managing editor L‘Internationale Online) on Rewinding Internationalism: Scenes from the 90s, today Links to an external site. an exhibition at Van Abbemusuem, Eindhoven (Nov 19, 2022 to Apr 30, 2023) and at Villa Arson, Nice
18:00-19:00 Reading seminar: We read before the meeting Svetlana Boym (2010) “Scenography of Friendship: Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, and anchovy paste” Cabinet, Winter, Issue 36, Friendship. https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/36/boym.php
19:00-19:30 Summary of what we have covered in the first phase of the course – key terms and ways of working with different sources. Briefing about nominating and selecting sources together.
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Thursday 28 Sep 23:00 DEADLINE #1
Invited to Propose a shared reading for the group (no class)
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Phase 2: Sources and Accords
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Tuesday 3 Oct 16:00-19:30 session 6
16:00-17:30 Reading Seminar: Michel de Montaigne “On Friendship.” We read one of Montaigne’s essays, as a historical source within an (androcentric) philosophical tradition on the friendship. We will discuss the text with a view to identify the key themes in the essay and in the tradition.
18:00-19:30 Reading Seminar: Barbara Caine “Taking Up The Pen: Women and the
Writing of Friendship” Chapter 6 in (2009) Friendship: A History (Critical Histories of Subjectivity and Culture) Equinox Publishing.
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Thursday 5 Oct 16:00-19:30 session 7
16:00-17:30 Viewing Seminar: We together look at a documentation of the performance: Going (orig. 1977) https://ravenrow.org/events/going-1977 Going is an experimental performance work that premiered in February 1977 in a tour of Scotland by the Theatre of Mistakes, organised by Richard Demarco, and was then performed widely across Europe and the USA, including at the State Correctional Institution in Pittsburgh in November 1978. It had not been performed in full since 1981, until it was reprised in 2017 as part of the STRETCHED research project led by Jason E. Bowman.
18:00-19:30 Guest Speaker: Jason E. Bowman (artist, educator, researcher) on aspects of STRETCHED artistic research project and the exhibitionary projects: “In Case There’s a Reason: The Theatre of Mistakes Links to an external site.” (Raven Row, London, 29 June to 5 August 2017) and “Setting the Table” (BALTIC 39 Project space, Newcastle, 12–15 April 2018.
Sources to look at Jason E. Bowman (2017) “There’s a Reason: A Case for the Theatre of Mistakes“
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Tuesday 10 Oct 16:00-18:30 session 8
16:00-17:15 Guest Speaker: Thiago de Paula Souza (curator & researcher)
“How do we learn to love each other when we are embattled on so many fronts?”*
*Title taken from (2009) I am your sister: Collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde, edited by R.P. Byrd, J. B. Cole and B. Guy-Sheftall.The full entry reads:
“Rather than siphoning off energies in vain attempts to connect with women who refuse to deal with their own history or ours, Black women need to choose the areas where that energy can be most effective. Who are we? What are the ways in which we do not see each other? And how can we better operate together as a united front even while we explore our differences? Rather than keep yelling at white women’s gates, we need to look at our own needs and start giving top priority to satisfying those needs in the service of our joint tasks. How do we deal across our differences of community, time, place, and history? In other words, how do we learn to love each other while we are embattled on so many fronts? I hope for an International Conference of Black Feminists, asking some of these questions of definition of women from Amsterdam, Melbourne, the South Pacific , Kentucky, New York, and London, all of whom call ourselves Black feminists and all of whom have different strengths. To paraphrase June Jordan, we are the women we want to become.
August 1, 1984, New York City”
17:45-18:30 Presentation: On Hortense Spillers (1987) “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe” and the critique of liberal models of subjectivity and self-possession, a theme within the liberal discourse on friendship.
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Thursday 12 Oct 16:00-18:30 session 9
16:00-17:00 Reading seminar: Old friends: Aristotle, Sappho and Confucius- Some sources on friendship.
17:30-18:30 Presentation: The idea of the social in “social practice” and “social relation”. Sources: Pages from 2018_Public_Enquiries_final.pdf
Download Pages from 2018_Public_Enquiries_final.pdf
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Tuesday 24 Oct 16:00-18:30 session 10
16:00-17:15 Reading seminar: Celine Conderelli’s (2014) The Company She Keeps, “The Company We Keep, part three”
17:45-18:30 Presentation: Nikita Dhawan (2017) “The problem was not what our enemies did, but what our friends did” (Responding to the question “Which issues and imperatives of feminist political sciences are still topical even after 20 years?” asked by Femina Politica: Journal of Feminist Political Science marking their 20th Anniversary Issue.
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Tuesday 31 Oct 16:00-18:30 session 11
16:00-17:15 Reading seminar: Michael Hardt “Red Love” in RED LOVE: Links to an external site.A READER ON Links to an external site.ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI pp. 63-92.
17:45-18:30 Planning meeting: Preparing for the PARSE conference and face-to-face meet up
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Wednesday 1 Nov 23:00 DEADLINE #2
A short (100 to 200 words( description of the project or practice that you would like to develop through taking this course.
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Thursday 2 Nov 16:00-18:30 session 12
16:00-17:15 Viewing seminar: We watch together the recording of a 2021 online seminar “On the Politics of Friendship” convened by Steven Henry Madoff with Céline Condorelli, Kristina Newman-Scott, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. “In the era of the pandemic, which has foregrounded isolation and technologies of remote nearness, as well as the ongoing crisis of racial injustice, it is all the more important to consider the importance of affiliation and friendship.” Presented by MA Curatorial Practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsf8yqiJMgU
17:45-18:30 Co-reading seminar: We read (and listen to) a short extract from Derrida’s Politics of Friendship.
“Reading Derrida’s Politics of Friendship.” King’s College London, 14.12.2018. Introduction to the workshop and a round of introductions. Presenters: Georgios Tsagdis (Westminster/AA), Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Cambridge), Charlotte Thevenet (UCL), Luke Collison (CRMEP, Kingston), Allan Parsons (Westminster/UAL). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_-wPsPTAE&list=PL7xVUT5MXWUEJKOAXrjrF2i2VFl5DUTfK
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Tuesday 7 Nov 16:00-18:30 session 13
16:00-17:15 Reading seminar: We read before the meeting Steven Henry Madoff’s (2021) “Exhibition of Friends” PARSE Journal What are the key themes in Steven’s texts? What is the key proposition?
17:45-18:30 Planning meeting: Preparing for the course assessment tasks.
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Thursday 9 Nov 16:00-18:30 session 14
16:00-17:15 Reading seminar: Looking at “Lumbung” as an operational model of community and of curatorial practice. We also consider the eflux conversation: “Living Lumbung: The Shared Spaces of Art and Life ruangrupa and Nikos Papastergiadis in Conversation”
Is Lumbung a figure of friendship or something else?
17:45-18:30 Planning meeting: Sharing readings for Phase 3.
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Phase 3: Fall-outs, break-ups and estrangements:
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Intensive option – Gothenburg –
to be discussed at the first meeting on Tuesday 5 September*
Wednesday 15 Nov PARSE Conference Links to an external site.
Thursday 16 Nov PARSE Conference Links to an external site.
Friday 17 Nov PARSE Conference Links to an external site.
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Tuesday 21 Nov 16:00-18:30 session 15
16:00-17:15 Reading seminar: Participant nominated reading #1
17:45-18:30 Presentation: On the tangle of friendship, birth-death (natality-mortality), and survivance. #1 Why and how do these themes come entwined? Looking at three sources: Derrida, Povinelli, and Vizenor.
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Thursday 23 Nov 16:00-18:30 session 16
16:00-17:15 Reading seminar: Participant nominated reading #2
17:45-18:30 Presentation: On the tangle of friendship, birth-death (natality-mortality), and survivance. #1 Why and how do these themes come entwined? Looking at three sources: Arendt and Glissant.
Hannah Arendt (1983) “Waldemar Gurian 1903-1954” Men in Dark Times. pp. 251-262. first published as “The Personality of Waldemar Gurian
Download The Personality of Waldemar Gurian” in The Review of Politics , Jan., 1955, Vol. 17, No. 1, The Gurian Memorial Issue (Jan., 1955), pp. 33-42.
Edouard Glissant’s (1997) (orig. 1990) Poetics of Relation extracts to be agreed before the session.
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Tuesday 26 Nov 23:00 DEADLINE #3
Critical response to aspect of PARSE conference (no class)
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Tuesday 28 Nov 16:00-18:30 session 17
16:00-17:15 Reading seminar: Participant nominated reading #3
17:45-18:30 Presentation: A Liberal Feminist re-reading of Aristotle on friendship, Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach’s attempt to re-frame civic friendship. Source: (1996) “On Civic Friendship” in Ethics, Vol. 107, No. 1 (Oct.) pp. 97-128. (Re-visiting questions on the nature of “liberalism” and introducing the analytic of “whiteness”. How do these connect to questions of the friend?)
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Tuesday 5 Dec 16:00-18:30 session 18
16:00-17:15 Reading seminar: Participant nominated reading #4
17:45-18:30 Presentation: Working with Leela Ghandi’s (2005) Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship, chapter “Manifesto: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship”.
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Tuesday 12 Dec 16:00-18:30 session 19
16:00-16:30 Planning of presentations in January 10 & 11
16:30-17:30 Guets speaker: Maria Hlavajova (BAK) – Political Imaginary / Former West
18:5-18:00 Presentation: Political Imaginary re-constructed. In this presentation we go through a refinement of the construct imaginary / political imaginary.
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Intensive option – Barcelona
Thursday 14 Dec (times to be announced)
Friday 15 Dec (times to be announced)
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Warsaw intensive – to be discussed at the first meeting on Tuesday 5 September*
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Phase 4: Responses, reconciliations, reneges and remains:
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Thursday 21 Dec 23:00 DEADLINE #4
First draft proposal (no class)
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Tuesday 9 Jan 23:00 DEADLINE #5
Final proposal (no class)
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Wednesday 10 Jan 16:00-18:30 session 20
Concluding assessment event participant presentations of their project proposal ideas
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Thursday 11 Jan 16:00-18:30 session 21
Concluding assessment event participant presentations of their project proposal ideas
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