TAI-E3156 - Approaches to Writing, Lecture, 25.4.2022-23.5.2022

This text in from an art project School of Artist Development (SAD) which begun in 2019. The content of the text is simple and straightforward, it tells you what your tutor really mean in their words. From the introduction to this book in the category(not sure should I use this word) for SAD,  the vocabulary book could be seen as a documentation to the change of the position (or relationship) of art students and their teachers. 

I enjoy how fun this book is and also how much it relates to my experience as an art student. It is also a great way to rethink how art institutions has changed over the years.

Here is the link to buy the book also photos of the content

Vocabulary: Understanding Your Professor and Make Life Easier

http://silasfong.com/news/product/vocabulary-understanding-your-art-professor-and-make-life-easier/

School of Artists Development

http://silasfong.com/news/product/sad-school-of-artists-development/

https://hethem.nl/en/Chapter-Four/Essay 

This might not be the most groundbreaking text, nor the most visually pleasing one - yet it stuck with me from the first time I read it. This text was the accompanying essay for an exhibition I saw at Het HEM, an exhibition space in an old bullet factory in Zaandam, The Netherlands. The space is big and industrial but curator Van Saarloos (who is also the writer of the text) managed to make an open, welcoming and at times intimate exhibition. And for me, they managed to convey this character of openness and intimacy in the essay as well. 

The most striking part about this text for me is, that it  was one of the first texts I read that really implemented the personal and anecdotes in a curatorial essay in an interesting and thought-through way. In this text, I feel that the personal, the site-specificity and the metaphors are very well implemented and give the essay strength. They helped me to grasp the context and the subject-matter better, which proves to me that the way of writing is supportive to the text. This text gave me the insight that a curatorial text can and may be personal and that this can actually benefit the text as well as the exhibition. 

I find that this book represents a beautiful example of inter-, and almost transdisciplinary artistic research in literature. The  book is a personal account on searching for answers to the cause and treatment of a rare neurological condition. Through a very thorough reading into the disciplinary discourse of neuroscience and psychology Hudsvedt exposes some of the blind spots and inconsistencies of clinical knowledge. She questions the divide between mental and physical in the diagnostics of western medicine.

To me both the form and content  of the text where inspiring and thought provoking.

I think that this article was a pleasantly accessible read. It is takes a form of an interview / dialogue between form Stacy Alaimo and Julia Kuznetski. They have an insightful conversation around the term transcorporeality, giving examples of how porosity and entanglement of seemingly separate bodies is indeed the very condition of every”one” and every”thing”, always and already. I think that this is a nice intro to the posthumanist / new materialist comprehension on embodied ontologies of mixing and co-formation.