The Skype Reading Group Sessions
The Skype Sessions was an series of international reading and discussion groups, with participants in London, Philadelphia, Chicago, Malmö and Berlin. Using free Skype telephone conferencing tools, collaborators exchanged and discussed notes and protocols from readings of texts chosen by participants in an ambulating fashion. The Skype Sessions Reader, comprising texts from each Skype Reading Groups, can be downloaded in pdf format here.
Session 1: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Alain Badiou, ‘The Ethic of Truth’ in Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (London and New York; Verso, 2001),pp. 40 – 57
Session 2: Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Geoff Lowe, Verification (unpublished)
Session 3: Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Gillian Rose, ‘Performing Inoperative Community: the Space and the Resistance of Some Community Art Projects’, from Steve Pile et al. [ed.] Geographies of Resistance (New York and London: Routledge, 1997)
Session 4: Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Brian Holmes, Artistic Autonomy and the Communication Society (http://ut.yt.to.or.at/site/index.html)
Session 5: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
SPK, The Concept of Illness (http://www.spkpfh.de/The_Concept_of_Illness.htm)
Session 6: Wednesday, September 7, 2006
David Schweickart, I Still Think It’s Nonsense (http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=26&ItemID=9918)
Session 7: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Hito Steyerl, The Articulation of Protest (bibliographical details unknown) and Glen Helfand, Activism in the Gallery (http://www.ressler.at)
Session 8: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
David D. Yuan, ‘Disfigurement and Reconstruction’ in Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Human Wheel, Its Spokes and Felloes and Paul K. Longmore, Conspicuous Contribution and American Cultural Dilemmas: Telethon Rituals of Cleansing and Renewal (bibliographical details unknown)
Session 9: Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Guy Debord, For a Revolutionary Judgement of Art (http://www.libcom.org/library/revolutionary-judgement-of-art)
Session 10: Monday, February 12, 2007
Claire Bishop ‘Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics’, in October, no. 110, Autumn 2004
Session 11: Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Chantal Mouffe, Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism (http://users.unimi.it/dikeius/pw_72.pdf)
Session 12: Sunday, March 25, 2007
Markus Miessen, The Violence of Participation - Spatial practices beyond models of consensus (http://www.springerin.at/en/) and Markus Miessen, conversation with Chantal Mouffe (http://roundtable.kein.org/node/545)