The Taxonomy of Resurrection:Writing the Site Specific

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Cross-Listed: Visual Critical Studies/ Writing Department
4000 level course / Summer 2008 First session

The Taxonomy of Resurrection: Writing the Site Specific

Together we shall generate a body of site-specific texts that are written both on and off site and begin to catalog and classify various sites of extreme eradication and radical resurrection, ranging from the revolutionary and architectural to small and humble gestures of reconstruction. Every other class shall convene at physical sites (IE: first nuclear chain reaction dumping ground, Black Panther Party People’s Clinic, Des Plaines Disturbance). Our complete writings will negotiate and illuminate the gap between writing on-site and generating theory from a distance.