WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT
SUPERCHARGED ARTIST STATEMENTS AND DIDACTIC MATERIALS
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WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT is a 90-minute workshop for artists aiming to strengthen written materials about their work. Artists preparing to update their web portfolio; apply for fellowships, grants, and residences; publish critical writing about their practice; or otherwise produce supplemental media are encouraged to attend.
WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT holds that, once honed, the act of writing is a heretical means to peer into and manipulate the future. Surveying a range of genre-defying artist statements, biographies, press releases, essays, and chapbook-length publications, the workshop examines how these texts compress feral intuitions into allegories that offer potent critiques, dissolve creative blockages, and attract institutional support.
Of course, no NOR RESEARCH STUDIO workshop would be complete without a reprisal of the money-making strategies central to our investigations. Unlike other writing workshops, WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT focuses on supplementary materials that typically accompany artworks, using concepts from intellectual property law to preemptively integrate those materials into a body of work and transform them into a streamlined application- and proposal-production process.
WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT is an unrepentant evocation of bibliomancy and telekinesis. Like the imaginary poison pills that can ward off hostile corporate takeovers, the self-reflexive, didactic, and poetic texts surveyed in the workshop demonstrate how the gripping, sticky effects that statements with material consequences engender are frequently more real to the human psyche than reality itself.
Sessions and Tickets
SUPERCHARGED ARTIST STATEMENTS AND DIDACTIC MATERIALS
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WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT is a 90-minute workshop for artists aiming to strengthen written materials about their work. Artists preparing to update their web portfolio; apply for fellowships, grants, and residences; publish critical writing about their practice; or otherwise produce supplemental media are encouraged to attend.
WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT holds that, once honed, the act of writing is a heretical means to peer into and manipulate the future. Surveying a range of genre-defying artist statements, biographies, press releases, essays, and chapbook-length publications, the workshop examines how these texts compress feral intuitions into allegories that offer potent critiques, dissolve creative blockages, and attract institutional support.
Of course, no NOR RESEARCH STUDIO workshop would be complete without a reprisal of the money-making strategies central to our investigations. Unlike other writing workshops, WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT focuses on supplementary materials that typically accompany artworks, using concepts from intellectual property law to preemptively integrate those materials into a body of work and transform them into a streamlined application- and proposal-production process.
WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT is an unrepentant evocation of bibliomancy and telekinesis. Like the imaginary poison pills that can ward off hostile corporate takeovers, the self-reflexive, didactic, and poetic texts surveyed in the workshop demonstrate how the gripping, sticky effects that statements with material consequences engender are frequently more real to the human psyche than reality itself.
Sessions and Tickets
NOR RESEARCH STUDIO, Blouse, 2019. those who use the law against those whom they deem primitive or savage should be subject to the law’s most primitive and savage aspirations.tif