What Is Critical Reflection by Eirik Vassenden
"it is not at all easy to find a vocabulary with which to analyse their artistic work."(Page 6, Vassenden, 2013)
"It has been claimed, controversially, that the art world seems to have developed its own jargon since the end of the 20th century. Alex Rule and David Levine (2012) characterised this internal jargon as ‘International Art English’: An English that has ceased to be English, but that over the past 25 years has absorbed the movements and articulation practices of the international contemporary art world, and that has thereby become a language style that dominates the work of creating, theorising about and, not least, selling art." (Page 6, Vassenden, 2013)
"What started out as linguistic experiments in articulation, become empty phrases and genre conventions." (Page 6, Vassenden, 2013)
Generally well written and interesting paper, this PDF also contains alot of links to examples of critical reflection which may be useful.
Vassenden, E., 2013. What is critical reflection? A question concerning artistic research, genre and the exercise of making narratives about one’s own work. Norwegian Artistic Research Programme.
- If needed the title/reference of one title referred to is here Rule, Alix & Levine, David 2012: ‘International Art English. On the rise—and the space—of the art-world press release’, Triplecanopy, 30.7.2012, Text
- This is generally a fellowship worth taking a look at.