Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Writing But Were Too Afraid to Ask

About

Writing is never easy. Yet artists face a deeper challenge because they tend to think in visual, spatial, concrete terms – not in terms of words. This workshop will show how artists can make writing easier by treating words – and texts – as visual, spatial, concrete elements. Text here will be treated like an artistic medium – yet with the goal of producing conventional texts: CVs, artist statements, project proposals, grant applications, academic theses. At the same time, I will show how text can be used to gain a deeper understanding of one’s own artistic practice and its future development.

Course leader

Jennifer Allen published her first art critique twenty years ago in the canadian magazine Parachute. In 1995 a DAAD scholarship took her to Berlin, where she wrote her dissertation and began to pursue the city’s emerging arts scene, which she finally docu

Target group

Students and young professionals in Architecture, Art and Design

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