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<\/a><\/i><\/p>\nImage: Madame Bovary<\/i> by Sharon Kivland<\/p>\n
Contemporary art-writing and creative writing continue to flourish. This afternoon event spotlights reading as itself an art, something to be cultivated, celebrated, enjoyed and thought about. Writers, artists, teachers and academics who work with, and on, reading will talk and present work. What does reading bring to contemporary art? How does it affect the institutions where it takes place? Who am I when I read? Where do I go? What traces does reading leave in me, or in the wider world? Where does reading end?<\/p>\n
Reading is an important part of the life of many contemporary artists and writers: it may also be what their work is about. There are traditions, theories and learned practices of reading but it\u2019s also a more or less spontaneous, private and unregulated occurrence. And what happens to reading when we are confronted by the unreadable?<\/p>\n
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1-2.30\u2018The Rite of Reading.\u2019 Forbes Morlock, The Institute for Creative Reading and Syracuse University London. Forbes writes about texts, art and psychoanalysis; he teaches, among other things, a course called \u2018Reading Pictures: Seeing Stories.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Teaching Reading Creative-Critical Writing.\u2019 Stephen Benson and Clare Connors convene the new MA in Creative-Critical Writing at The University of East Anglia. They will talk about their experience co-teaching creative-critical writing and about reading such writing with their students.<\/p>\n
\u2018Individual Reading Records.\u2019 Kate Briggs is a writer and translator; she teaches at the American University of Paris and Paris College of Art.<\/p>\n
2.45- 4.15 ‘Essayism’. Brian Dillon, UK editor of Cabinet<\/i>\u00a0magazine, and Tutor in Critical Writing at the Royal College of Art, will address the essay as a form that crosses literature, film and contemporary art.<\/p>\n
\u2018Shimmy Shimmy.\u2019 Hester Reeve\u2019s practice explores art as a species of philosophical agency, invested first and foremost in the task of radical thinking. She chooses to operate in her own mind via \u2018HRH.the\u2019 (a conceptual persona) and is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. She will work the book and the body.<\/p>\n
\u2018Action Reading.\u2019 Peter Jaeger is a Canadian poet, literary critic and text-based artist now living in the UK. He is an AHRC research fellow for 2012-13, and is working on John Cage\u2019s poetics.<\/p>\n
4.45-6 Nicholas Royle, writer and critic, Professor of English at the University of Sussex, will read a bit of Elizabeth Bowen alongside some Wallace Stevens.<\/p>\n
\u2018The First Reader: a Dictation,\u2019 Sarah Wood (event organiser: s.wood@kent.ac.uk) is an editor of Oxford Literary Review<\/i> and Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities<\/i>, also Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Kent.<\/p>\n
\u2018Reading Nana<\/i>\u2019 by Sharon Kivland, artist and writer, Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield\u00a0Hallam University, and Tutor in Critical Practice, Wimbledon College of Art,\u00a0UAL. Sharon is a keen reader, thinking about what is put at stake by art, politics,\u00a0and psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n
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\u2018I never read. I only look at art.\u2019 Andy Warhol \u2018There is no contemporary reader.\u2019 H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cixous \u2018I write in order to give the contemporary … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}