Advanced Course in Visual Arts



2009
July 2
Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A Preface lecture with Walid Raad, FAR, Como
July 9
The withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster with Jalal Toufic, FAR, Como
July 16
Experimental aesthetic practices in the Middle East lecture with Catherine David, FAR, Como

2008
July 3
Intelligence starts with improvisation lecture with Yona Friedman, FAR, Como
July 10
Something is Missing with Marco De Michelis, FAR, Como
July 15
Double Shell, lecture by Massimo Bartolini, FAR, Como

2007
July 5
lecture with Marina Warner, FAR, Como
July 12
Corso Aperto, Spazio San Francesco and elsewhere, Como
Space Movement Time, with Joan Jonas, FAR, Como
July 19
lecture with Kerry Brougher, FAR, Como

2006
July 6 ex-Ticosa, 6.30 p.m.
Marjetica Potrc, Fragmented City lecture and opening of her solo-show
July 13 FAR, 6.30 p.m.
Kyong Park, Lost highway expedition, lecture
July 20 FAR 6.30 p.m.
Stalker Distances, insurgences and identities, lecture

2005
Art beyond aesthetics. Jaar or the rediscovered commitment
Gianni Vattimo
It is difficult
Alfredo Jaar

2004
Stones rejected by the builder
Jimmie Durham (Visiting Professor)
The Good and the Righteous work: Mechanisms of Splitting and paradoxes in relational art
Cesare Pietroiusti (Artist)
Multiplicity
Stefano Boeri (architect and director of Domus magazine)

2003
Place in our darkness/art that resonates, slowly
Richard Nonas (Visiting Professor)
Art, Religion and Anthropology
Jean Hubert Martin (curator)
Foreign Agents in New York
Sylvčre Lotringer (semiologist)

2002
In extremis
Giulio Paolini (Visiting Professor)
Mystical Body and Social Body
Lea Vergine (art critic)
Recent projects
Mario Botta (architect)

2001
Body Art
Marina Abramovic (Visiting Professor)
Rehabilitation of History: Questioning the East.
Myth, Prejudice, Illusion, Reality: Some Remarks on Art and Society in the Other Part of Europe

Lóránd Hegyi (curator)
What the Body Can Do
Societas Raffaello Sanzio (theatrical company)

2000
The spirit of a place
Ilya Kabakov (Visiting Professor)
On the New
Boris Groys (art critic)
History, Memory... Becoming
Giairo Daghini (philosopher)

1999
Two Owls
Haim Steinbach (Visiting Professor)
Camera Work
Dimitris Kozaris (artist)
I wrote I Love You in the Sand
Marco Senaldi (art critic)
The Ozu Complex
Francesca Archibugi (film director)

1998
Shadow
Hamish Fulton (Visiting Professor)
Ten Years of Portikus or the Endeavour to Continue Experiment
Kasper König (curator)
Dangerous Games
Alessandro Dal Lago (sociologist)
1997
Just doing
Allan Kaprow (Visiting Professor)
Arts and Society: Participation or Flight?
Jan Hoet (curator)
Future, Present, Past: Thirty Years of Art in Six Month Biennial
Giorgio Verzotti (curator)

1996
The Why Scenario
Liam Gillick (artist)
Love Revised
Carsten Höller (artist)
Et et au lieu de ni ni au lieu de o
Hans Ulrich Obrist (curator)
Notes on the Presence of the Common Object in Contemporary Art
Giorgio Verzotti (curator)
Art and Fashion: Ballad of Mutual Dependency
Olivier Zahm (art critic)

1995
Iwona Blazwick (curator)
Francesco Bonami (curator)
Nicholas Bourriaud (curator)
Viktor Misiano (curator)