Description

How does photography open up possibilities for writing? This program provides a venue to unpack why and how we write into photography. Rethinking photography as a particular genre of image-making, the course aims to re-orient our curiosity as we discover and draw from various writerly ways of approaching photography as a complex. Sessions of looking, sharing, and reading will culminate in a writing workshop. Towards the end of the program, participants are expected to produce an article related to their area of interest, under the guidance of the workshop facilitator. Selected articles will be published in Insights: Issue Two. It is open to writers from different fields, professionals, enthusiasts, artists, and researchers. The course will cover the following: - Photography and its relation to textual registers - Writing forms, vocabularies, conventions, and experiments - The complex as both form and predicate - Entry points into historiography, feature writing, and criticism - Facilitator and peer review sessions Course readings and references will be provided. -------------------- About the Facilitator: Pristine L. de Leon’s art criticism practice is informed by her experience in new journalism, art theory and scholarship, and an ongoing affair with creative writing. Since receiving the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma prize for art criticism at the Ateneo Art Awards in 2016, she has written reviews and features on visual art and theater as an art columnist in The Philippine Star. She has contributed criticism to regional platforms such as Art and Market and ArtsEquator. Her fascination with the shape-shifting figure of the art critic led her to become part of the first Asian Arts Media Roundtable convened by ArtsEquator in Singapore in 2019 and of the Critical Ecologies | Critical Anomalies collective, an online residency hosted by Centre 42. In 2020, she was the recipient of the Emerging Writers Fellowship organized by Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, which published her research on public art and collaboration. While pursuing her MA in Art Studies: Art Theory and Criticism at the University of the Philippines, she has taught classes such as Genres of Art Writing at the Fine Arts Department of the Ateneo de Manila University.