GOING ON TOUR: ART & TOURISM

Calendar

Day 1.
Introduction
Pop image of the US Tourist - National Lampoon's Vacation (more)
We're not going to do an ethnography of the tourist, as much as look for ways of both occupying the role of both tourist and guide in productive and critical ways.
Tourism as field of inquiry - both subject and methodology of art
Tourism and the Everyday
New Assignment *
Keep a journal for one week in which you narrativize your movements in space.
Document the following:
+ Where you go (names, addresses, landmarks)
+ What determines/guides your movements (interfaces with space) to get there
+ Your comfort level in these places and getting to them
+ When you have to learn something to function in a place
+ What forms of social exchanges take place, how a place determines your relationship to others
* due following week

Readings for next class:
Ben Highmore's "Figuring the Everyday" from _Everyday Life and Cultural Theory_
Pierce Lewis' "Axioms for Reading the Landscape" from _The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes_

Day 2.
Discuss Highmore/Lewis readings
Discuss journal observations
Look at and discuss Multiplicity's "Border Devices"
New Assignment: Defining Territories
Produce a folding paper map that gives shape to these movements and occupations, attempting to visualize the affective and visual qualities of your narrative.
* Bring the following week
Reading for next class: Territories introduction (Delaney)

Day 3.
Look at/discuss paper maps + Territories reading
In class work
Begin Campus Territorial Scavenger Hunt
* Using check out window, lab + class flickr group
Reading for next class: MacCannell "Sightseeing and Social Structure"

Day 4.
View results of scavenger hunt
Discuss: "Sightseeing and Social Structure"
New Assignment (for groups of 2-3): Seeing/Sightseeing
View: 01s insignificant building, CLUI, NE Thing Co., Tseng Kwon Chi

Day 5.
Film Screening: Bontoc Eulogy
Discuss progress on sightseeing itineraries
Everyone will visit at least 2 itineraries and report back to the class.

Day 6.
Discuss: Sightseeing Itineraries (report backs)
Readings for next week:
MacCannell "Staged Authenticity"
Lucy Lippard's "The Tourist At Home" from _On the Beaten Track_
Jamaica Kincaid's "A Small Place"

Day 7.
Discuss MacCannel/Lippard readings
New Assignment: Front + Back Spaces (completed by groups of 2-3)
Film Screening: Cannibal Tours

Day 8.
Sound Exercise
Discuss progress on Front/Back Space videos

Day 9.
View: Front + Back Spaces assignments
Reading for next week: Urry "Pavements and Paths"

Day 10.
Discuss "Pavements and Paths"
New Assignment: Mobilities - walking (completed by groups of 2-3)
View Projects: Invisible 5, Janet Cardiff/George Miller

Day 11.
Film Screening: Bride Market of Imilchil
Discuss progress on walks

Day 12.
Discuss Walks
New Assignment: Dialectical Diversions
Projects: Toxic Tours, Pocho Res Soc, And While London Burns
Reading for next class:
+ Gregory Ulmer "Metaphoric Rocks"

Day 13.
Discuss Ulmer reading
Reading for next class: Shields "Political Tourism"

Day 14.
Discuss "Political Tourism"
Reading for next class: Paul Carter "An Outline of Names"

Day 15.
Discuss "An Outline of Names"

Day 16.
Review final projects