14. JUNE 14

STEDELIJK MUSEUM

* Colored Liquids exhibition
How would it have been different had you gone in the opposite direction through the exhibition, opposite the direction you went?
Why go to all the trouble to make this work?

* Basement exhibition with the sheep
What animals are entangled in this ecosystem? (Human, sheep, wolf, dog)
What vector forms emerge from these entanglements? (Spiky dog collar to ward off sheep. Weird automatic sheering machines. Property lines.)
How was this exhibition like a natural history museum? (vitrines, text explanations) How was it different? (subjective relationships, soft wool rug, holistic artistic [not merely historical or scientific] perspective)

* Anselm Kiefer stairway murals
How like Gustav Klimt? How different?
How related to human scale? (Clothes at bottom were human body scale) How did it achieve 3D-ness? (Flower petals, clothes).
How site-specific? How was it in dialogue with the floor tile patterns, the architecture of the building, the stairwell itself?

There are thousands of pieces of work. Pick a piece that stood out to you, and talk a bit about it. Did any work seem particularly relevant to your own creative practice?

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SUMMARY

Persistent themes?
Particular takeaways?

Explain next steps:
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1. On the site, I'll post the discussion questions I asked per day, correlated to our locations + readings. 
2. Write 12 short response essays (1-2 pages) correlating assigned readings to places we visited. Pick a single topic to correlate each time.
3. Pick one short essay of most interest to you, turn it into a paper:
a. Add further readings/citations by relevant authors.
b. Add further research on the relevant work we saw.