Week 1. Introduction

• Introduction to the program and course overview.

This is a one-hour-only welcome session. The lecturer will introduce the program and participants will introduce themselves. No prior preparation is necessary.

Week 2. What is trending?

• tracing trends, movements and hypes in the contemporary artworld
  
• blowing-up and venting in art criticism
  
• the (dis)advantages of making grand, sweeping statements in art criticism
  
• writing manifestos in art criticism: where/what is the next revolution?
  
• assignment
  

Week 3. Signature shot

• feedback on writing assignment
  
• what is one’s own voice? Finding your “signature shot”
  
• investigate historical examples of daring voices in art writing in the 1920s
  
• learning to control the narrative / develop a sense of construction / writing with the ear
  
• assignment
  

Week 4. (Non)Fiction

• feedback writing assignment
  
• fictional form in art criticism: the art work as starting point for fictional and poetic developments
  
• the question of truth and untruth in art criticism
  
• the writers’ room or writing as a collective
  
• assignment
  

Week 5. New perspectives

• feedback writing assignment
  
• developing interests in your writing/mapping
  
• creating new perspectives on art
  
• deconstructing the trodden path
• writing exercise in class

We will use Zoom for the live video conferences, please check Zoom's technical requirements here.

Live captioning will be available during the video conference.