2/24/18: Class 49/50: Cooper Bus Tour & Jalal Toufic

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2/24/18: Class 49/50: Cooper Bus Tour & Jalal Toufic

Hey Projects class,

Expect a longer recap email later today about our class visit with alumni trustees Paul Nikulin & Stephen Gerard, as well as some documentation from the President's Day bus trip around the city where some of us spent the day visiting historic and present day Cooper related sites.

We'll be meeting this week at 2pm in room 414 Fdn and opening with the weekly bulletin go-around, please bring your asks, shares, updates, or progress-es.

This week

We'll be joined by Lebanese artist, filmmaker, and author of various publications Jalal Toufic. From his website:

Jalal Toufic is a thinker, writer, and artist. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. Many if not all of his books, most of which were published by Forthcoming Books, continue to be forthcoming even after their publication. He was most recently a participant in the Sharjah Biennial 11, the 9th Shanghai Biennale, Documenta 13, "Six Lines of Flight" (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), and "A History: Art, Architecture, and Design, from the 1980s Until Today" (Centre Pompidou). In 2011, he was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD; and in 2013-2014, he and Anton Vidokle, led Ashkal Alwan's third edition of Home Workspace Program, based in Beirut.

Please take the time to review the following texts, and please bring printed copies to class for discussion:

—The School of Visual Arts Director's Statement

— “Epilogue” (interview with me by Hans Ulrich Obrist), Global Art Forum: Transcripts: 1, ed. Maria Finders (Dubai: IMC, 2007), 311–324

— Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, “Interview with Jalal Toufic,” in Towards a Foreign Likeness Bent: Translation, ed. Jerrold Shiroma, Duration Press, 2005

— Aaron Kunin, “Interview with Jalal Toufic,” Rain Taxi Online, Fall 2001

If you know of folks in the class who might not check their class email regularly please take a second to contact them about these readings.