This class is designed for artists who are engaged in social practices that go outside of the institutionalized, so called; “art world.” These practices could range from anything like those of  Food Not Bombs, The Yes Men,  Thomas Hirschorn, and others. The class will actively participate in training methods used by numerous espionage organizations like the C.I.A., MI6, INTERPOL, etc. – in order to develop skills in stealth operations, diversion, detournment, video production, photography, graphic design, writing, and “performance” related fields. Parallel to these procedures will be numerous readings, discussions, and situations designed in advance or merely occurring in the present related to contemporary art history, art theory and art movements including Dadaism, Surrealism, Situationism, Fluxism, Structuralism, as well as 21st century subjects like appropriation and intervention.