24. April 2019, 10:30 – 14 Uhr
Vielen Dank an die Autorin, Herausgeberin & Kuratorin Louisa Elderton für ihren Vortrag & Workshop Artist and Writer: Who Needs Who(m) im Rahmen der internationalen BAI Frühlingsakademie zum Thema Kunst & Kritik. Der Vortrag gibt unseren Teilnehmer*innen einen umfangreichen Einblick in ihre interdisziplinären Praxis und das Zustandekommen und die Konzeption ihrer Projekte. Die Veranstaltung fand statt innerhalb des Studioprogrammes am BAI | Kunstschule, Kunstinkubator & Artist in Residence in Berlin.
“Art writing can take many different forms, from reviews and criticism to poetry and press releases. What is the history of the craft and where does its future lie? How has the art market co-opted art writing to reinforce value – and is all press good press when it comes to art? In the first part of her lecture Louisa Elderton will look at examples from the history of art writing, from Vasari to Diderot, through Clement Greenberg to Quinn Latimer and Maggie Smith to assess where we’ve come from, we are today and where art writing might be heading. We will look at how art writing styles have shifted, the role that the artist and the work play in criticism and where the writer sits in relation to the artist. The second part of the lecture will be dedicated to experimental writing exercises that will encourage participants to be free with their pens, to produce their own short pieces of art writing, both about their practice and the artworks of others.” (Text by courtesy of Louisa Elderton)
Louisa Elderton is a writer, editor and curator based in Berlin specialising in art, culture and travel. She is a Project Editor for Phaidon and holds a Master’s degree in curating from The Courtauld Institute of Art.
Her writing has appeared in Apollo, Artforum, Art in America, Art Monthly, Art Review, artnet News, Artsy, Berlin Art Link, The Burlington Magazine, Elephant Magazine, fineartmultiple, Flash Art, Frieze, Garage, The Gourmand, Harper’s Bazaar, House & Garden, Metropolis M, Modern Painters, Monopol, Mousse, Near East, SLEEK, thisistomorrow, Vogue China, Where About Now, and The White Review.
She has contributed writing to numerous Phaidon publications including Animal: Exploring the Zoological World (2018), Flying too Close to the Sun (2018), Universe (2017) and Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (2016), and has written catalogue essays for artists including Norbert Schwontkowski, Francesco Clemente, Rachel Howard, Marius Bercea and Tim Noble & Sue Webster, and gallery texts for Alice Morey, Mary Ramsden and Adriano Costa, among others.
She was the Project Editor of the survey book Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic in Contemporary Art(2017) and is currently working on the next book in Phaidon’s ‘Vitamin’ series Vitamin T: Threads & Textiles in Contemporary Art (Spring 2019), and The Art Book: Women Artists (Autumn, 2019).
Weitere Informationen auf der Louisa Elderton Webseite.
