Starting Thursday, August 4, 8 p.m. as usual, The Huntly Art Reader expands into an art reader network with the initiation of The Edinburgh Art Reader. Coordinated by Anna Vermehren and Dane Sutherland, respectively, and with the first set of eight texts chosen by yours truly, please join us in either city for a drink and a discussion, and possibly a game of spoons.

Huntly - Crown Bar Lounge

Edinburgh - Waverly Bar

The reading list in full includes will be based on the theme of How Are We Writing (about art) and take place between August 4 – Sept 22, 2011

Week 1:

George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946

Week 2:

Walter Benjamin, The Task of the Translator, 1923

Week 3:

Henri Lefebrve, Cleaning the Ground

Week 4:

Gertrude Stein, selections 

Stein on Matisse, MP3 file 

Frank O’Hara, selections

Pages 15 – 28 and Section 10 (Pp 122 – 135)

Week 5 & 6:

Deleuze and Guattari, TBD selections

Secondary texts:

http://ensemble.va.com.au/enslogic/text/smn_lct08.htm

http://csmt.uchicago.edu/annotations/deleuzerhizome.htm

http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/prose/Deleuze_and_Guattari_on_the_rhizome.html

Week 7:  Special Edition, Who Are We Writing For?

Primary Text: Serge Daney’s The Tracking Shot in Kapo

Secondary text: Serge Daney, The Critical Function (first third of the text)

Week 8:  

Slavoj Zizek, Excerpts from The End of Times TBD

Possibly an excerpt from In Defense of Lost Causes, Content “What is to be Done?”  Chapter 7, “The crisis of determinate negation”