This publication documents the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's 2019-2020 Bill and Stephanie Sick Visiting Professorship of Nayland Blake and the course they co-taught with Matt Morris, Psychogeography, offered through the Sculpture Department. Through studio praxis, rigorous reading and discussion, and a rich survey of cultural production, this course considered conceptions of spaces-psychological, urban, political-and how they have been formed, mutually informed, and made to...
More DescriptionThis publication documents the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's 2019-2020 Bill and Stephanie Sick Visiting Professorship of Nayland Blake and the course they co-taught with Matt Morris, Psychogeography, offered through the Sculpture Department. Through studio praxis, rigorous reading and discussion, and a rich survey of cultural production, this course considered conceptions of spaces-psychological, urban, political-and how they have been formed, mutually informed, and made to intersect. The course takes its name from ideas worked through by the Situationist International, and across the semester we will examine ideas of mapping, the development of city spaces, and various ways that the individual or subject has been positioned within such spaces. The resultant research analyzes, frames, deconstructs, and intervenes into notions of territory, site, and location, with particular attention to how identity markers such as race and sexuality are instrumental in construction of places and their inhabitants. This volume further accounts for the impact of COVID-19 and the 2020 lockdowns on the practices of the artists involved.