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Indicative Weekly Topics
Week 1: Introduction to theories on materiality
Week 2: Artwork
Week 3: Artist
Week 4: Collaboration
Week 5: Decolonising methodologies
Week 6: Technique
Week 7: Conservation, Preservation, Restoration
Week 8: Remaking
Week 9: Archive
Week 10: Institution
Suggested Reading
Bennett, Jill. Practical Aesthetics. Events, Affects and Art After 9/11 - Radical Aesthetics, Radical Art. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Ingold, Tim. “Materials against Materiality.” Archaeological Dialogues, Vol. 14/01 (June 2007): 1-16.
Goodman, Nelson. Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co, 1976.
Barker, Emma, ed. Contemporary Cultures of Display. New Heaven: Yale University Press, 1997, 105-126.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: research and indigenous people. London: Zed Books, 1999. Read Chapters 1 and 2.
Kubler, George. The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008 (1962).