Can we write about our art (a paper, thesis, essay, etcetera), merging artistic insight and theoretical reference, in an imaginative way?
Tutor
Maya Rasker, PhDArts candidate
For whom?
For 2nd, 3rd an 4th year BA students of the KABK and Leiden University and MA students of KABK.
The course will be in English.
When
6 Meetings on Wednesdays, Semester II 2022, Block 2 (April-May)
Study load
3 EC (39 contact hours and 45 self study hours)
About this course
Can we write about our art (a paper, thesis, essay, etcetera), merging artistic insight and theoretical reference, in an imaginative way? Can ‘fiction’ serve as a tool for formal inquiry? Can ‘theory’ be treated as a friend? The course On Fiction and Forensics raises questions about the conventions in critical writing and proposes new spaces to experiment with referencing, to the use of footnotes, and to the application of fictional elements. Thus it aims to broaden and brighten up the practice of writing artistic research.
There are no admission requirements for this elective course.
For KABK students: Register in OSIRIS before (date and time TBA).
For Leiden University students: register in uSis before (date and time TBA).
Max. 12 students can be admitted for the course.
Full attendance is obligatory in order to receive study points towards the Individual Study Trajectory (IST).
For questions Emily Huurdeman, coordinator of the lectorate, at lectoraatktp@kabk.nl.
6 Wednesdays Block 2 (time 10:00 - 16:30 room B.112):
BLOCK 2
Class 1 Wednesday 06-4-2022
Class 2 Wednesday 13-4-2022
Class 3 Wednesday 20-4-2022
Class 4 Wednesday 11-5-2022
Class 5 Wednesday 18-5-2022
Class 6 Wednesday 25-5-2022
The program will guide you towards the production of an end text – tailor-made type and size – that serves as, and results in a textual experiment in line with your current artistic research issues.
Competencies to be addressed
− Creative ability
− Capacity for critical reflection
− Capacity for growth and innovation
− Communicative ability
− Contextual awareness
Assessment criteria
Presence: passive ---> active
Participation: negative ---> positive
Critical reflection: weak ---> strong
Conceptual research: shallow ---> thorough
Execution: simple ---> enriched
Presentation: anonymous ---> expressive
Paul Magee, ‘Alternative futures for the creative writing doctorate (by way of the past)’, in: TEXT: Journal of writing and writing courses Vol. 24, No. 1 (April 2020), pp. 1-21
Anthony Grafton, The Footnote, a Curious History, Cambridge (US), 1997, pp. 1-33: Chapter 1: ‘Footnotes, The Origin of a Species’.
Ursula LeGuin, 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction' (1988) in: Cheryll Glotfely and Harold Fromm (eds.), The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literacy Ecology, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996, pp. 149-154.
Jon K. Shaw and Theo Reeves-Evison, eds., Fiction as Method, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017: pp. 6-71 (Introduction).
No laptops allowed in the class room. Students should bring pens, pencils, and enough paper to enjoy a lot of hand writing in class.
THEMES AND LECTURES
Introduction teacher, programme (content, form, aim), end work, assessment criteria.
Introduction of participants.
Exploration of the concept and intuitions of ‘facts and fiction’ in writing.
Assignment (in class): Writing assignment
Close reading, discussion, analysis of the written (max 6).
Homework (preparation for session 4): Anthony Grafton, The Footnote, a Curious History, Cambridge (US), 1997, pp. 1-33: Chapter 1: ‘Footnotes, The Origin of a Species’.
Close reading, discussion, analysis of the written (max 6).
Lecture on the concept of the footnote (and endnote, and author-date reference) as a device for justification and narrativity. Discussion on the prepared text by Anthony Grafton.
Assignment (in class): short writing assignment.
Homework: Ursula LeGuin, ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’ (1988), or ‘Bryn Wawr College Commencement Address (1986)’.
Lecture on the application / possibilities of footnotes in relation to creative / expressive writing.
Discussion on the prepared text.
In class discussion / preparation on writing assignment.
Assignment (in class): writing on LeGuin (a beginning)
Homework: A text on LeGuin [to be send to teacher].
Preparation presentation end text.
presentation
Lecture on artistic research through writing.
Homework: start writing.
Reading & discussion drafts of end texts
Presentation and performance of end texts.
ABOUT THE TEACHER
After a career as creative producer in the film industry, Rasker (Málaga, 1965) turned her ambition to writing: essayism, journalism, theatre, scenario. With her prize-winning debut Unknown Destination (2000) she made her entrance in the world of literature. Her work is published in the United States, Spain, Russia, Germany, Hungaria and Turkey. In 2012 she completed her Master in Artistic Research (Universiteit van Amsterdam). The thesis, on the position of the author after publication of the work, was appreciated with cum laude. As lecturer at the Master Artistic Research in and through Cinema in Amsterdam, and other MA and BA art institutes, she designs and teaches courses on writing and (artistic) research, on the transformation of the autobiography, and on the notion of ‘the beginning’ in art production and research. She was Research Coordinator for the School of Media at the University of the Arts Utrecht from 2014-2017.
This course is part of the Art Research Programme of the Lectorate Art Theory & Practice.
For questions about the courses in the Art Research Programme, please contact Emily Huurdeman, coordinator of the lectorate, at lectoraatktp@kabk.nl.