Thursday, 4 July | 18:00 – 21:00 | Alice Black Gallery

Henry Lefebvre coined the term "everyday" to draw attention to the overlooked significance of the mundane experiences and routines that shape our lives. Since its entrance into epic painting of the 19th century, the quotidian has become a common concern in artists’ practice. But far from wishing to represent the everyday, the avant-garde wanted to abolish the separation of art and life altogether. Contemporary art has inherited these two opposing and contradictory projects. This class explores the critique of everyday life and the avant-gardist ambition to integrate art and life.

Set Reading (provided upon enrolment)

Kaprow, Allan (1983). Real Experiment. Artforum Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec 1983), pp. 37-43.

Debord, Guy (1967). The Culmination of Separation. In Society of the Spectacle. New York: Zone Books, pp. 6-17.

Branka Bogdanov (1989). On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972. Colour, black and white, sound, 22min.