4/1/18: 4/2 Workshopping and Visit with Freshmen Projects

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4/1/18: 4/2 Workshopping and Visit with Freshmen Projects

Hi Projects, 📣

Tomorrow we'll meet again in room 414 at 2pm. We'll be workshopping our visit with the Freshmen Projects class (7pm room 215 foundation) in addition to our weekly bulletin. For you reference below is the email/prompt that's been sent to the freshmen. Please come prepared to share and participate during our class even if you are unavailable to attend the evening session. You might consider as we spitballed last week- questions you yourself still or have had about Cooper and personally important or pivotal developments, be they your own experiences or historical instances. In case you missed it a round up of readings and resources was posted in the thread of last week's class emails, I'll include the links again at the bottom of this email as well as an attachment PDF of the assigned Howard Singerman reading for next week. 📚

Dear all,

In preparation for this week’s presentation by Projects: The Cooper Union, we would like to ask you to answer the following question:

What do you wish you had been told (by another student, faculty, administrators, your parents, friends),or known about your first 8 months in The Cooper Union?

Additionally, please prepare

(at least) One question you still have about Cooper, this question can as broad or as granular as you find appropriate.

We hope that you answer these prompts as honestly as possible. As an advanced studio course (comprised of faculty, alumni, students, and external community members) the members of Projects: The Cooper Union are interested in your individual experience, in all its particularity. We are also hoping that your answers may form the basis of a document, primer, or snapshot of sorts, to be distributed to the incoming students in The School of Art next year.  A complement to the Disorientation Handbook, a transmission from then students to the incoming class regarding the state of the school, it’s atmosphere, and more.

We hope that reading the answers will permit us to initiate another workshop, to be completed in class. We will listen to each others’ answers, and should you relate to or find “affinities” with someone else’s answer (regardless of whether you like or not the answer in question), we will ask you to visualize it, with a drawing, a sketch, a photograph, a short video or audio clip.  This second part will be completed in class.

We also ask that you do not sign nor write your name on your answer.  We also request that you seal your answer in an envelope.  Do not write your name on the envelope.  We will gather the envelopes, put them in a bag.  We will read the answers together, picked arbitrarily from the bag, unless you opt to read your own response.

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  • Lawerence Abu Hamdan's Taqiyya & The Secret Life of Phonemes are p 68-78 from this catalog on the Notion and Politics of Listening
  • Peter Cooper's 1859 Letter to the Trustees, the dialogic formatting by the Library may be of interest as well as some of the language
  • Previously shared in an earlier class, George Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By , all of which is a great read though chapters 14-18 may be useful per our discussions!
  • Jalal Toufic's Director's Statement for Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts ALBA
  • Postscript on the Societies of Control by Gilles Deleuze
  • Josiah's above mentioned Institutional Liberation from 2016 in eflux by the collective Not An Alternative
  • Freeman's recommendation of bell hooks' ain't i a woman is also attached below  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xKzUF9uzYQwBuF4MM7Nxti2GMGNnqHlI/view?usp=drive_web