Calendars:Fine Art Calendar/Fine Art Calendar/23-01-2020 -Event 3

Y1 writing workshop with MIKE, small project space 14:00 - 17:00

I would like to talk to you about strategies of writing, and about the kind of attention you pay to works (or would like others to pay to yours) - and to make a connection to the Rotterdam film festival which opens the same day.

I have two small tasks I'd like you each to prepare for our meeting:

1) Select a film clip to introduce yourself

Since I haven't been to most of your studios yet, I would like you to introduce your work to me by showing me someone else's - specifically, by sharing a short film clip (maximum 3 minutes) which you think will tell me something about your practice, your sensibility, your sense of humour or anything else that seems important. It has to be under 3 mins - there are no other rules! It can be from any kind of film (or TV etc), anything goes provided you can share it with us in the meeting. Don't sweat over your choice too much, or feel like you need to find some clip that will stand in for everything you do - be instinctive and pick something that might make someone (i.e. me) curious to discover more about what you do. We will watch them one by one and there will be a chance to say something about the clip you've chosen, before or after you show it. And I will bring a clip of my own too. If possible, email me the video file or link by Wednesday night so I can try to have them all ready on my computer.

2) Reading

In the second half of the meeting, I'd like us to discuss together two very short texts: one is a 1990s lecture by the filmmaker Raul Ruiz and the other is an article from the late 1920s by the critic and novelist Dorothy Richardson (I've shared both by email). They are both, in very different ways, about the experience of watching films. Whist you are reading them, I'd like you to be thinking about writing and speaking as forms of attention: how do these two writers attend to what they see and hear? What modes of attention do they describe, and how do their forms of writing reflect those modes? And how do you relate to their ways of watching, in terms of films or other art experiences?