20 June 2022 - 20 June 2022
12:00PM - 6:00PM
Elvet Riverside 141
Free (A small number of bursaries for travel are available to students and unwaged)
This afternoon workshop will offer ten-minute presentations on the theme of 'outside'. Centring on Art Writing's mobility as a form and its intuitive correspondence with visual culture, the workshop will take an aptly creative-critical focus, providing a forum in which scholars and practitioners may present works-in-progress, new writings or ideas that might occur between (or, indeed, 'outside') disciplines, departments, or definitions.
This event is part of the series Unregarded: Forms of 'Outside' in Art Writing
The workshop invites contributions that challenge interpretations of ‘outside’: the out-of-doors, outside the frame, outsider art, the non-human, forms of resistance and protest, the carceral state, the non-traditional, prosthetic technologies, outside as practice, the creative life, the ethics of ‘outside’. It asks how categories of ‘inside’ or ‘outside’ inform our understanding of art writing – a discipline that occupies a relatively recent and ambivalent place within the institution, and which occurs between and beyond theory and practice. What does the notion of ‘outside’ reveal or put at stake?
As points of reflection within the workshop, two featured speakers, author Preti Taneja and Brass Art, will also offer their thoughts on the “Outside” through presentations of recent material, followed by Q&A sessions.
The program offers creative opportunities for networking and the sharing of knowledge between students, researchers and practitioners. This event is part of the Unregarded series.
Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing, Newcastle University
Preti Taneja is a writer and activist. Her first novel, We That Are Young, won the Desmond Elliott Prize and was listed for awards including the Folio Prize and the Prix Jan Michalski. It was a New York Public Library Pick, and has been translated into several languages. She is a contributing editor at And Other Stories, and at The White Review. Her second book is Aftermath, a lament on the language of prison, terror, trauma and grief following the Fishmongers’ Hall attack in November 2019.
Artists
Brass Art is Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneké Pettican, based in Manchester, Glasgow and Huddersfield, UK. Within their collaborative art practice they use analogue and digital technologies as a means to disrupt conventional narratives and to capture themselves in real and imagined situations. Manifest as miniature 3D models, morphic silhouettes, drawings and shadowy digital sprites, their artwork returns to themes of the double, the in/animate, the limen and the atemporal.
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