Grad Seminar: Apeshit in the Louvre

Apeshit in the Louvre is a graduate-level reading
seminar that looks at
theories and histories of exhibitions, museums and
galleries, thinking
specifically about the agency or power of the
artist within them. Starting
with ways that artists have incorporated the
language and conventions of
exhibition into the very form of their work and
contemporary protests for the
expansion of access, decolonization and social
relevance, we will consider
how the politics and meanings of galleries,
museums and public spaces
themselves act upon our works, and how our works,
in return, act upon
them as a material. Considering histories of the
museum, the gallery and
biennial, theories of the expanded field,
site-specificity, institutional critique,
interventionism, performance art, relational and
socially-based practices,
the "artist as curator," and straight up protest,
we'll encounter works by:
Emily Jacir, Aruna D'Souza, Amy Longtree, Coco
Fusco, Bridget Cooks,
Steven Nelson, the Carters (Beyoncé and Jay Z),
Decolonize Museums,
Brian O'Doherty, Avery Gordon, Cameron Roland,
Harald Szeeman, Alice
Koenitz's Los Angeles Museum of Art (LAMOA), the
Equal Justice
Initiative's Legacy Museum and Memorial for Peace
and Justice, Miwon
Kwon, Project Row Houses, Hito Steyerl, Tony
Bennett, Allan Sekula, Fred
Moten and Stefano Harney, Okwui Enweazor, Chantal
Mouffe, the Museum
of Jurassic Technology, Hans Haacke, and more.