Post-Minimalism

Sorry about the later post, but I have had a busy week grading tests and all, which are not done yet, and several other aspects of this class for next semester. However, our class tonight will be on post-minimalism, which is a pretty big and open-ended term, which takes in a lot of different artistic practices, some of which are exceptionally important in how artworks are made today.

Some major points to come out of the readings you need to know:

1) the idea of site-specificity, particularly in relation to the idea of minimalist art as phenomenological objects.
2) the notion of entropy (the second law of thermodynamics), look up the scientific definition of entropy and apply it to culture/ the social, then think how Smithson used these ideas to fuel his projects. IT IS AN EXTREMELY NEW JERSEY AESTHETIC! This is our turf here young witches and wizrds...
3) anarchitecture, related to Gordon Matta-Clark
4) the abject, look up what is related to Julia Kristeva's theory of the bject from her book The Powers of Horror
5) I hope everyone is noticing the fetish art theorists have for scat. And I really mean that literally. They love poo. Eveything looks like it to them, and they love calling things 'shit'.
6) metaphysics (de Chirico in relation to Arte Povera)
7) mnemonics, or memory systems, (remember the cultural challenge Germans had with their own identities after WWII?, well the Italians had it too, look at how they coped, and how they still have scrap in them that goes nowhere...)
8) the expanded field, this was a term first set in stone by Rosalind Krauss, who is one of the writers of this text.

See you young and talented witches and wizards in class, bring a bell, book and candle, we are going to have an All-Saints Day Post-Minimalism Seance!

Professor Nathan Shafier,
Order of Faustroll, Ninth Belt