SOCIAL WORKS, Shannon Jackson

Shannon Jackson's Social Works  is a product of her time in the Academy, especially at the Radical thinking U of CA: Berkeley.

 PROLOUGE  A web supported walk through the attempts at decifering our postdramatic, post studio practice.  Jackson is attempting to offer some critical traction to an increasingly complex field of experimentation in art performance...joining formal questions of aesthetic experimentation  to socio-political questions(p.2)  Her concerns are with shifts of perception(Samuel Beckett's Rockaby)(turtle), social interdependence and "where aesthetic and social provocations coincide(p 5.)   ...If the aesthetic melange shifts perception, then we also need frames that show the social stakes of that perceptual shift.

Maria Lind | e-flux

Situationist International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=359575

Postdramatic theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Artists....inter subjective exchange as substrate for work:

http://www.thelandfoundation.org/?One_Year_1:Profile:Rirkrit_Tiravanija

http://www.santiago-sierra.com/201116_1024.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiVflBWgqEE

http://www.networkedcultures.org/index.php?tdid=43

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gRgaXib0Sc

Theatre: philosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck

Performance, Aesthetics and Support, chapter 1
This book will not force agreement or pretend to offer a single clarifying silver bullet.  This book does seek to bring different geneologies into high relief and to foreground the conflicting assumptions behind key terms that animate both the aesthetic and the social field:  collaboration, efficiency, intelligibility, freedom, collectivity, institution, action, the aesthetic and the performative.

• "time and collectivity serve as medium and material for exploring forms of interdependent support."p 14
• "freedom and expression are not opposed to obligation and care, but in fact depend upon each other, this is the daily lesson of any theatrical ensemble."
• from derrida, re-reading kant, parergon cannot the strickly divided from the ergon of aesthetic autonomy, " the exteriority that interiority can't do without, the co-operator."(p. 16)
• aesthetic autonomy gain acute urgency-life of art- LIFE of ARTISTS- ?? security of employment???ex. Carolee Schneeman, example:me.-
• "Americanized", "Anglo-Saxon" social models of neoliberal government???withdrawal of national art and health care support in their communities???
• The Fall of Man, Richard Sennett 

Jackson wishes to unravel the frame that would cast "the social" as "extra"

het·er·on·o·my

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the condition of being under the domination of an outside authority, either human or divine.

het·er·on·o·mous

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1.

subject to or involving different laws.

Origin: 1815–25

http://anniesprinkle.org/
http://www.body-pixel.com/2010/06/16/interview-with-guillermo-gomez-pena-you-know-i-worship-the-imagination/
http://www.body-pixel.com/2010/06/16/interview-with-guillermo-gomez-pena-you-know-i-worship-the-imagination/
http://intermedia1fa2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/art_context_slideshow.pdf
http://www.ttakemoto.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Greene_(artist)
http://theyesmen.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men
http://www.lindamontano.com/residency/index.html

Chapter organization

Across the Arts, p.17
"social practice="socially engaged art"; allegiances in a number of fields, terms positive and Not triumphantly celebrated. "But isn't all art political?"IMPLICATIONS of medium specific histories of aesthetics and medium specific imaginings of social theory
-reational art, revision of sculpture?theatre, perception and critical language important.
S.Jackson -Artlies article, "Theatre...Again,"(THEATRICALITY IN VISUAL ART)------

Across the Social
Issues of governance, micro and macro interdependencies of selves and others.  CONTINGENCY of desiring machines of individuals- which are reflective of the back and forth of Historical developments.  Jackson offers a condensed clear account of happenings and the "desires they may produce p.22 including a 1960's  heterogeneity of social engagement against The Man, how this developed over generations and what it devolved(sic) to- Jackson is attracted to movements that complicate decade-to decade traversals between ends of a continuum.   Apply Radical thought to all.

Across the Social Arts
Concerns: Market support and State support- Stalin and "Diversity-Supported projects...gallery=neutral?

Support: Plato's cave(perception)and fundamental role of aesthetic support.

looking forward,p.39
chapter 2: case studies, in depth look at social practices and relational aesthetic, similarly termed but differently directed debates in theatre and performance studies. Jackson aims to give"the domain of social relations a certain degree of formal attention."
chapter 3 : takes us back before terms such as institutional critique and social practice had been coined
chapter 4: 3 case studis to elaborate the varied role of theatricality in "institutional critique."Art category, institutional critique
chapter 5: Theatre companies with substantial reputations
chapter 6: Artmarket
THE PARADOX:  support can create restraint.  "Because so many relational art practices and so many new social models debate their willingness to ride that paradox, it seems important to ask what we can learn by foregrounding performance as a series of supporting relations, relations that sustain entities that are, for all intents and purposes, living.  (so does selling painting, like a micro experiment of the relational art-reference debate during Mary's crit about painting an interior within an interior.)

het·er·on·o·my

   [het-uh-ron-uh-mee]  Show IPA

noun

the condition of being under the domination of an outsideauthority, either human or divine.

het·er·on·o·mous

   [het-uh-ron-uh-muhs]  Show IPA

adjective

1.

subject to or involving different laws.

Origin: 1815–25

"social turn"

"social practice"

bounded integrity

aesthetic heterogeneity

social heterogeneity
normalize

resilience of critical assumptions
self-figuration
echo-focus: phenomenological phrase describes the background awareness of the tools and bodily rythms one uses to move throughout the world.
proprioceptively entitled
infrastructural reminder
weak publics
"interpublic coordination"-no one can ever fully go it alone"

Monee Monee Nana and Papa thanks for coming

Fuck u obama

do the right thing.

Tarsands?
Occupy Wall Street, Solidarity.
Save America from the corporations

Simone is 2

A new haircut and a new kitty, welcome Bella, Simone says baby Bella.

Penguin is not a kitten any longer, but Monee is a big kid

Thanks for the Snow Leopard PJs Nana, Simone can now be a cat too.  She insisted on wearing them to school today.

WInter done-Spring

 iowa River, signs of thaw, Simone and I caught each new disease that ran by Tim's School this season.

It is all behind us, we are collecting experiences and keeping them close to apply to all things.

BUY NOTHING

Practicing the secondary-thrift store-food bank-dumpster diving-fall garden-fixing-finding-trading economy

NOW 10 Months in H2o fear MWRA-HA

Apples and Lilacs and paper curling moistness, night walks and wishes on Venus, Nana returning and little girl growing growing growing.  Our Great Pond and the forever long drive keeps me from the water boiling.  I enjoy a double latte just to celebrate the commute.  (the great water contamination of May 2010).  So Big.

Influences and Influence

A friend once asked me if they should go and draw the monkeys at the zoo. I said, only if you want to cry.

Simone Ali Robinson

Beijing Coming

Recycled into a vase in the light industry area of the public workers, who do not improve space, or guardian it but "protect, guard and secure it. Imagine the Administration involved. Photo taken at the edge of the shared parking for Area 4 Boston Police and Ladder 7? Harrison and Malden Streets.
Corn you can eat raw.Nightingale Natural Spaces Public Garden, Park and Washington, Dot.

Olympics and Tibet, Thailand and Burma and all peoples everywhere.