I would like to facilitate a discussion about the shapeshifting duality of the word “economy” as it applies to Serra’s Sequence in terms of material, the artist, and the current economic crisis. I would like to do this by moving through the sculpture. From the economy of the work itself–the physicality and form of the material used, it’s unmitigated mass and the fact it remains standing; to the economy of culture–what does it mean that in the same week as the meltdown of the us markets artist Damien Hirst broke records for sales of a single artists’ work? Finally, we will arrive at the economy of icon: Serra is to Minimalism as Bob Dylan is to folk/rock. Let’s examine this narrow determism and lower the drawbridge.

 Date:  November 2, 12-2 (1 meeting)
Location: “Sequence” at LACMA
Teacher: Kelly Marie Martin
Limit: 15 people
Fee: $10