{"id":884,"date":"2012-10-23T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T02:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2013-07-12T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:23:37","slug":"every-word-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/every-word-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Word Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/everywordcounts_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-887\" title=\"everywordcounts_web\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/everywordcounts_web-300x194.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/everywordcounts_web-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/everywordcounts_web.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notes from the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/emmedia.ca\/?p=3069\">Every Word Counts<\/a> workshop with Diana Sherlock.<\/p>\n<p>Pitching, basics of pitching.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion of ethical writing practice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>conflicts of interest<\/li>\n<li>routed in notion of being objective<\/li>\n<li>need to be aware of decision you make to make sure you keep to your story of your opinion but never let artist read it (this includes catalogues)<\/li>\n<li>keep some objective distance<\/li>\n<li>can&#8217;t be paid by the artist you are writing about (otherwise it is promotional writing) publisher + writer \/= artist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Questions addressed:<\/p>\n<p>1. What kind of writer are you? Poetic, ficto-criticism, daily journalism, art journalism, blogs.<\/p>\n<p>2. What is critical writing? Critical framework through which you\u00c2\u00a0interpret. Open up the work to other contexts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deconstructing the writing process<\/p>\n<p>Invention\/pre-writing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>brainstorming<\/li>\n<li>mind mapping<\/li>\n<li>free writing<\/li>\n<li>the pentad (who, what etc)<\/li>\n<li>when you have the impetus get the ideas down have faith that your idea matters, focus on idea of resonance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Drafting\/Disposition<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>outline<\/li>\n<li>thesis<\/li>\n<li>body of text<\/li>\n<li>conclusion<\/li>\n<li>get your ideas down, source from the artist and from secondary sources<\/li>\n<li>is your thesis a question or a statement?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>Texts discussed (in small groups)<\/div>\n<div>Kristeva + Noise by Andrea Williamson Hand Held Fall 2011<\/div>\n<div>Poem by Laurie Fuhr Hand Held Fall 2011<\/div>\n<div>If a video is shot in the forest by David Garneau Hand Held<\/div>\n<div>Rex vs. Singh by Kerilynn Ming Ho<\/div>\n<div>Into the Light San Facon&#8217;s Limelight by Kay Burns<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Other points from the afternoon<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>think about form of text, audience etc<\/li>\n<li>thesis will give us a direction for a persuasive argument<\/li>\n<li>item that is missing from critical writing, the way a good sentence is crafted<\/li>\n<li>formal description of an artwork can serve to bring out the context of critical<\/li>\n<li>address reception of artwork in critical writing<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;fill in the blanks&#8217; writers sometimes assume a lof of things and we don&#8217;t describe what we see<\/li>\n<li>use description as an analytical tool every characteristic of an artwork has an effect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Then we watched <em>Eclipse<\/em> by Joe Kelly and then we described it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Editing types of feedback &#8211; read through three times for:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>mechanical (small stuff, like typos etc)<\/li>\n<li>mid-level (structure, thesis and context carries through and develops &#8211; look backwards at linking)<\/li>\n<li>global (logic and big ideas)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>Writers are readers!<\/p>\n<p>List of encouraged publications:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artspeak.ca\/publications\/product_detail.php?itemID=98\">Out of Psychoanalysis: Ficto-Criticism 2005 to 2011\u00c2\u00a0by Jeanne Randolf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Happened-Criticism-Prickly-Paradigm\/dp\/0972819630\">What happened to art criticism? by James Gilkins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fillip.ca\/books\/judgment-and-contemporary-art-criticism\">Judgement and Contemporary Art Criticism <\/a>by J Khonsary and M O&#8217;Brian<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/where-art-belongs\">Where Art Belongs<\/a> by Chris Kraus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/How-To-Write-Sentence-Read\/dp\/0061840548\">How to write a sentence and how to read one<\/a> by Stanley Fish<\/p>\n<p>Post Pacific Post by Amy Fung<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/dp\/0920397433\">Technologies of Intuition<\/a> by Jennifer Fisher<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When did this happen? 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