Next week: Field Research Assignment

This is a reminder that we will not meet next week, but that you will instead be required attend a minimum of one of the following exhibitions and write a 2-4 page interpretive essay:

The Bay Area Now and zine exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Edgar Arceneaux at SFMOMA
Tony Labat at New Langton Arts (Free)
Playful Poetics at the Oakland Art Gallery (FREE)
The Lecture & Screening by Peter Kubelka, (on Thursday, 10/19) called "Poetry and Truth," at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive

You may also write about a different exhibition (including an online exhibition) that fits the focus of our class, if you first run it by me over email.

Please Note: This essay will not count as one of your final papers (instead, it falls under class participation, just as your blog posts do), but it should be taken just as seriously. It needs to have a thesis and strong arguments rooted in close-readings of the works you saw. You can compare and contrast work in the show(s), or write about what the show accomplished or said, overall.

These are due in-class, at the beginning of class, on Tuesday, Oct 25. Email me if you have questions about the assignment before then.

I hope that you have fun visiting these exhibitions and perhaps this essay will form a draft for your second paper.