About this Event
KINGS Artist-Run and un Projects are pleased to invite you to our third KINGS Emerging Writer's Program Workshop for 2024, facilitated by art historian and critic Tara Heffernan.
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KINGS will be open from 6pm, and the workshop starts at 6:30pm.
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The perfect storm of middle–brow complacency, edu–tainment and anti–intellectualism has diluted art criticism, neutralising the antagonisms and novelties that forged the discipline. How did we get here and what can be done? As the fog of the 2010s dissipates, incontrovertible evidence of a growing frustration with limp writing has surfaced.
This workshop will begin with an introduction to the state of art writing/criticism as it intersects with the lineages of New Journalism and the dubious promise of aesthetic democracy. Together, we will discuss crucial examples of “critical” criticism from Robert Hughes, Dave Hickey and Catherine Liu, examine the rise of faux-critical criticism today. and consider methods of harnessing negative responses to art while avoiding the trap of smug cruelty.
Participants are encouraged to bring short excerpts from work they deem compelling.
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Tara Heffernan is a vision impaired art historian and critic. Currently, she is completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne on postwar Italian artist Piero Manzoni. Her work concerns modernism and the avant-gardes, conceptual art and the lineage/s of the New Left. She is a regular contributor for Melbourne’s Memo Review and has written for national and international publications such as Artlink Magazine, Third Text Online, Eyeline and Overland. In 2024, she was a judge for the Darling Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Heffernan is also the guest editor of Un Magazine issue 18.1 and recently contributed a chapter to Jeff Gibson: False Gestalt (Griffith University Art Museum x Perimeter Editions, 2024) edited by art historian Wes Hill.
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Places are limited, but there will be a waitlist in place. Tickets are free but donations are very much appreciated.
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In 2024, KINGS Emerging Writers’ Program is supported by un Projects. The EWP is run by Wen-Juenn Lee, Skye Malu Baker and Matt Siddall.
KINGS Artist Run is wheelchair accessible, however we do not have a wheelchair accessible bathroom. Please email [email protected] for any inquiries.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
69 Capel St, 69 Capel Street, West Melbourne, Australia
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