Workshop
Presented by Next Wave in partnership with Un Projects, this workshop will explore ways in which young writers can respond critically to artworks and performance projects through art writing and reviewing. Participants will undertake critical discussions and writing exercises, sharing their opinions and ideas about the Closer Together theme and producing quick-turnaround reviews of artists’ projects.
About Polyphonic
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Artist/s:
Rosemary Forde
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Rosemary Forde is currently completing a research MA at the University of Melbourne, focusing on art criticism and the recent history of independent art magazines in the Melbourne contemporary art industry. Rosemary is Editor of Melbourne’s contemporary art magazine un Magazine and contributing editor of SPEECH, an online forum for art reviews and discussion. Rosemary has presented her research at conferences, including the AAANZ annual conference, Monash University, December 2006; and she chaired the public forum Publishing without Publishers at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art in June 2007. Recent published articles include contributions to Broadsheet, Making Space, un Magazine, Ramp Magazine, SPEECH, and exhibition texts for Ronnie van Hout, A Constructed World, Relentless Optimism, Richard Lewer, Meredith Turnbull, DAMP, Stuart Bailey and Rozalind Drummond. As a curator, Rosemary is involved with independent gallery spaces and was previously Director of the Physics Room contemporary art project space in New Zealand (2002 – 2004). Recent curatorial projects include how low river rose (with A Constructed World, Melbourne, 2006) and Melbourne Operatic (exhibited in Auckland and Melbourne, 2007).
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Background to TEXT CAMP
TEXT CAMP is a three-stage program involving workshops, a mentorship program and a publication outcome. Presented in association with Express Media and un Projects, TEXT CAMP provides opportunities for ten emerging writers to work with and learn from established writers, to build networks and contribute to critical and creative discourse around the 2008 Next Wave Festival and contemporary art practice more generally. Comprising two parallel teaching streams that explore either creative writing or critical writing methods, TEXT CAMP engages the many ways that artworks and performance projects can be responded to through writing. With the program running before, during and immediately after the Festival, look out for TEXT CAMP: the 2008 Next Wave Festival Reader in contemporary art spaces around the country in July 2008.