27 Our Literal Speed: Stuff Near Art That Is Not Art, Which Is Treated As If It Were Art, Is Now The Substance of Most Serious Art Program dates: January 7, 2013 - February 22, 2013 Application deadline: Extended to August 17, 2012 Faculty: Abbey Shaine Dubin Guests: Theaster Gates, Christopher P. Heuer, Matthew Jesse Jackson Materials and situations, atmospheres and activities that had once been very near art but not art, are now very often art. Much of the visual art of the twenty-first century vivifies the formerly neutral, decorative surfaces that have surrounded the discussion, production, and display of artworks: the gallery opening, the white cube, the PowerPoint lecture, the auction house. And over the last decade a renewed sense of art’s expressive possibility has flourished as more stuff began to be treated as if it were art, a process that has developed in dialogue with painting, photography, sculpture, performance, and video; the media that have come to do...