The second session of the home school class, generously hosted at the Cherry & Lucic house adjacent to the garage exhibition space (http://cherryandlucic.com/). Stream will be available for those who can't make it. A pdf of session #1 powerpoint can be found here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzcxE8roGFt1LXhmUDJVcHFPOW8/view

In lieu of a description of the class, here is an excerpt from an email from Manuel Arturo Abreu sent to the Cherry co-directors:

"I have a very busy week ahead of me but I will try very hard to provide you all with an overview of my talk. I am thinking this one will relate to poetry's incursion into art - both in canonical high modernist times as well as in the contemporary moment and intervening periods. The last class worked heavily with ideas from David Joselit (his "heritage and debt" lecture specifically), and this time I am building on those ideas and seeing how they dovetail with Paul Mann's Theory-Death of the Avant Garde, in which he argues "the dematerialization of the art object is the refetishization of discourse." Maker aesthetics, abject figuration, and nostalgic craft have all seen a resurgence in contemporary practice and I want to investigate how this relates to poiesis and politico-aesthetic gentrification paradigms (whether it's neocolonial heritage-debt dividends as Joselit describes, or more innocuous subsumptions of marginality such as Portland's love of regionalism-as-institutionality). 

Also will probably be tying in some ideas from Bifo's book And: Phenomenology of the End regarding the neurosocial shift from conjunctive thinking, which is open and driven by interpretation/sensibility, to connective thinking, which is driven by syntactic rules and set roles and denigrates phenomenological experience (ie embodied experience). His claims regarding language's power to negate actually-existing reality and the opportunities for alienation that arise from it resonate with my thoughts on the incursion of poetry (or the idea of poetry as a valueless object operating on an economy of magic) into art as well as its discourse and marketing. These are all loose ideas and I welcome us all hashing them out before Sunday, if there is time. If not, I will be happy to present a finished powerpoint and talk summary on (probably) Friday. One pressing need is the simplification of the ideas I am presenting. I will keep you posted.

I'm compiling an ebook consisting of art exhibition press releases which are poems. I'm just mentioning it because it amuses me."

Most of all, have fun !