What is art criticism for? How does it function? How should it change? This workshop will investigate art criticism, its aesthetics, its ideologies and its institutional role with an emphasis on the Norwegian context. The workshop will focus on questions such as: How does critique take form? How does a text operate? What is the relationship between writer and text, text and reader? How does a text reach an audience? How is the discourse around art constructed? What forces affect it? If the critique of the institution of art is also, itself, part of the institution, how can meaningful change take place? The workshop will begin with a one-day public event of talks by Bradley and additional speakers and screenings, and will continue with several sessions culminating in a day of public talks by the participants in 2010.
Preparatory readings
