What is it about?
While artists are encouraged to embrace uncertainty in their visual practices, at the same time they are expected to use text as a means of explaining their work and intentions. This paper discusses the problems that this causes and puts the case for an approach to writing that abandons certainty and embraces doubt, imperfection and collaboration.
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Although writing has long been part of my practice as an artist, it was working with MA Fine Art students that made me realise the sheer terror many felt at the thought of writing. The article grew out of my interactions with students and experiments with collaborative texts. In keeping with the title, it is not meant to be a template on how to write but an argument for more inclusive and varied approaches.
Judith Stewart
Sheffield Hallam University
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This page is a summary of: All the better for being vague? The authority of text, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, February 2020, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/jwcp_00008_1.
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