Artworks

AVEEK SEN
Art & Writing

November 1 - 6, 2018
Duration: 5 Days
11am - 5pm daily
Course Fee: INR 2500
Maximum number of participants: 15 persons
Location: Experimenter - Ballygunge Place, 45 Ballygunge Place, Kolkata 700019

To register please email admin@experimenter.in

This ELP module will involve practical sessions with art writing in English, Bengali or Hindi.

Participants need to apply with a writing sample of approximately 350 words.

Participants will be reading key texts from all kinds of writing (literary, theoretical, philosophical, critical, art-historical journalistic and curatorial) to think about and work towards modes of writing in a complex, lucid, original and felicitous manner, avoiding jargon, clichés and obscurity as much as possible without letting go of nuance and complexity. Participants will also be looking at the limits of writing: how do we know when to stop and let the work speak for itself? Whom are we writing for? How do we prepare ourselves for writing about and with the arts, and how do we customize these preparations to the work of individual artists and their ways of working? These are some of the questions that are going to be explored, both practically and critically in this workshop.