There are regular reading group sessions on the MA courses. Staff, visiting artists, curators and students select a key text to bring to the group to discuss and to prompt analysis and wider discussion around each text.
In 2014/2015 the following texts were discussed:
2nd December – Chaos, Territory, Art, Elizabeth Grosz – Suggested by Steve Dutton
11th November – Relationscapes: Movement, Art and Philosophy, Erin Manning – Suggested by Emma Cocker and Claire Thornton
28th October – Grids, Rosalind Krauss – Suggested by Andrew Bracey
In 2013/2014 the following texts were discussed:
14th May – The Diarist – Cybermohalla Ensemble – Suggested by Raqs Media Collective
6th May – Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance, Herbert Molderings – Suggested by Ben Woodeson
11th March – On not Knowing: How Artists Think’, Elizabeth Fisher and Rebecca Fortnum – Suggested by Jeanine Griffin
4th March – Imagine Being Here Now, Lucy Lippard – Suggested by Hilary Gresty
11th February – The Uncanny, Sigmund Freud – Suggested by Ang Bartram
In 2013 the following texts were discussed:
20th November – 3 texts from Maria Lind – Abstraction – Suggested by Yelena Popova
Documentary Uncertainty, Hito Steyerl
Notes on Abstraction, Peter Halley
13th november – Chrissie Iles – Video and Film Space – Suggested by Alec Shepley
5th November – Raqs Media Collective – To Culture: Curation as an Active Verb – Suggested by Jeanine Griffin.
22nd October – Lane Relyea – Studio Unbound – Suggested by Andrew Bracey