Becoming Writing: Navigating Art Through the Written Word

About

Why does art writing matter amid the AI boom? If artificial intelligence chatbots can steer everything we have to say about visual culture, why not just handover the baton? This course centres the creative and personal imperatives of writing about art. How can body, sensation, and thought become writing? Whether you’re a critic, journalist, art historian, curator, gallerist, artist, or someone who wants to try their hand at something new, the framework of this class encourages deep engagement with the roles of imagination, criticality, and perspective in art writing.
Over a two-week period, we will look at how identity, memory, context, and culture can shape our interpretation of contemporary art, not only intellectually, but also from an embodied standpoint. Through individual and group exercises in looking, reading, writing, and editing, you will go onto develop a piece of work that brings together our experiments with form, style, voice, argument, and narrative, through which you will find your own original way of writing

Course leader

Louisa Elderton

Target group

Art Critique / Writing

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