Admission requirements
There are no admission requirements for this elective course.
Description
Can we write about our art (a paper, thesis, essay, etcetera), merging artistic insight and theoretical reference, in an imaginative way? Can ‘fiction’ serve as a tool for formal inquiry? Can ‘theory’ be treated as a friend? The course On Fiction and Forensics raises questions about the conventions in critical writing and proposes new spaces to experiment with referencing, to the use of footnotes, and to the application of fictional elements. Thus it aims to broaden and brighten up the practice of writing artistic research.
The program will guide you towards the production of an end text – tailor-made type and size – that serves as, and results in a textual experiment in line with your current artistic research issues.
Themes and lectures
SESSION 1
Introduction teacher, programme (content, form, aim), end work, assessment criteria.
Introduction of participants.
Exploration of the concept and intuitions of ‘facts and fiction’ in writing.
Assignment (in class): Writing assignment
SESSION 2
Close reading, discussion, analysis of the written (max 6).
Homework (preparation for session 4): Anthony Grafton, The Footnote, a Curious History, Cambridge (US), 1997, pp. 1-33: Chapter 1: ‘Footnotes, The Origin of a Species’.
SESSION 3
Close reading, discussion, analysis of the written (max 6).
SESSION 4
Lecture on the concept of the footnote (and endnote, and author-date reference) as a device for justification and narrativity. Discussion on the prepared text by Anthony Grafton.
Assignment (in class): short writing assignment.
Homework: further elaboration of the in class writing assignment (==> to be send around).
SESSION 5
Reading, discussion and analysis of the written.
Lecture on the application / possibilities of footnotes in relation to creative / expressive writing.
Assignment (in class): breakout groups: discussion of possible end text ideas.
Homework: plan / idea towards the end text (==> to be send around).
Reading: Paul Magee, ‘Alternative futures for the creative writing doctorate (by way of the past)’, in: TEXT: Journal of writing and writing courses Vol. 24, No. 1 (April 2020), pp. 1-21
SESSION 6
Discussion on the prepared text by Paul Magee.
Towards the end: discussion of the end text plans.
Homework: version 1 end text (==> to be send around and commented on).
SESSION 7
Reading, discussion and analysis of the written; tips and trics for improvements.
Homework: towards the end text.
SESSION 8
Individual consultation.
SESSION 9 AND 10
Reading, discussion, assessment of the end texts.
Course objectives
Please note: this is NOT a course in academic writing, and NOT a course in so-called creative writing. The main aim of this course is to learn to apply strategies in writing to support one’s (artistic) research and practice.
The program will guide you towards the production of an end text – tailor-made type and size – that serves as, and results in a textual experiment in line with your current artistic research issues.
Timetable
Wednesdays 11.00-14.00h (see online/offline below)
March 3rd 2021 (11.00-14.00h) room PB101
March 10th 2021 (11.00-14.00h) online
March 17th 2021 (11.00-14.00h) room PB101
March 24th 2021 (11.00-14.00h) online
March 31 st 2021 (11.00-14.00h) room BP101
April 7th 2021 (11.00-14.00h) online
April 14th 2021 (11.00-14.00h) PB101
April 21st 2021 (11.00-14.00h) online
May 12th (11.00-14.00 & 15.00-18.00) PB101
assesments: May 19th 11.00-14.00 PB111
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Seminar
Course Load
ECTS credits will be awarded on the basis of this portfolio (with particular attention to the goal text) and the performance in class. 3 EC.
Assessment method
Competencies to be addressed:
− Creative ability
− Capacity for critical reflection
− Capacity for growth and innovation
− Communicative ability
− Contextual awareness
Assessment criteria:
Presence: passive ---> active
Participation: negative ---> positive
Critical reflection: weak ---> strong
Conceptual research: shallow ---> thorough
Execution: simple ---> enriched
Presentation: anonymous ---> expressive
Assessment
The program will guide you towards the production of an end text – tailor-made type and size – that serves as, and results in a textual experiment in line with your current artistic research issues.
Key competencies addressed in this course are: creative ability, capacity for critical reflection, capacity for growth and innovation, communicative ability and contextual awareness.
Students will be evaluated primarily with respect to the following criteria: – Presence: passive —> active – Participation: negative —> positive – Critical reflection: weak —> strong – (Conceptual) research: shallow —> thorough – Execution: simple —> enriched – Presentation: anonymous —> expressive
Blackboard
No.
Reading list
Paul Magee, ‘Alternative futures for the creative writing doctorate (by way of the past)’, in: TEXT: Journal of writing and writing courses Vol. 24, No. 1 (April 2020), pp. 1-21
Anthony Grafton, The Footnote, a Curious History, Cambridge (US), 1997, pp. 1-33: Chapter 1: ‘Footnotes, The Origin of a Species’.
Ursula LeGuin, 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction' (1988) in: Cheryll Glotfely and Harold Fromm (eds.), The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literacy Ecology, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996, pp. 149-154.
Jon K. Shaw and Theo Reeves-Evison, eds., Fiction as Method, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017: pp. 6-71 (Introduction).
Additional information
No laptops allowed in the class room. Students should bring pens, pencils, and enough paper to enjoy a lot of hand writing in class.
Registration
There are no admission requirements for this elective course.
For KABK students: Apply between 10 and 12 February 2021 by registering for the course in OSIRIS.
For Leiden University students: Apply before 3 February 2021 by registering for the course on uSiS.
12 students can register for this course.
The course will be in English.
For questions Emily Huurdeman, coordinator of the lectorate, at lectoraatktp@kabk.nl
The course will be in English, please bring a laptop with USB connection.
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available on the website
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Contact
For questions about the courses in the Art Research Programme, please contact Emily Huurdeman, coordinator of the lectorate, at e.huurdeman@kabk.nl.
Remarks
About the lecturer
After a career as creative producer in the film industry, Rasker (Málaga, 1965) turned her ambition to writing: essayism, journalism, theatre, scenario. With her prize-winning debut Unknown Destination (2000) she made her entrance in the world of literature. Her work is published in the United States, Spain, Russia, Germany, Hungaria and Turkey. In 2012 she completed her Master in Artistic Research (Universiteit van Amsterdam). The thesis, on the position of the author after publication of the work, was appreciated with cum laude. As lecturer at the Master Artistic Research in and through Cinema in Amsterdam, and other MA and BA art institutes, she designs and teaches courses on writing and (artistic) research, on the transformation of the autobiography, and on the notion of ‘the beginning’ in art production and research. She was Research Coordinator for the School of Media at the University of the Arts Utrecht from 2014-2017.
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