Writing & Concepts: Volume 1

Volume 1 ISBN 978-0-9953925-6-4
179 pages | Softcover | B&W and colour images
277mm H x 220mm 

Editor: Jan van Schaik
Authors: Jan Van Schaik, Grace Mcquilten, Leon Van Schaik, Hannah Bertram, Robert Nelson, Nikos Pantazopoulos, Kelly Fliedner, Jesse Bullivant, Esther Anatolitis, Susan Jacobs, Phip Murray, Lisa Radford, Maura Edmond, Pia Ednie-Brown, Tom Nicholson, Callum Morton, Agatha Gothe-Snape & Brian Fuata, Justin Clemens, Emile Zile, Nella Themelios & Ricarda Bigolin, Nikos Papastergiadis, Lou Hubbard, Helen Grogan & Sarinah Masuk

How might writing generate art and art generate writing? In this hybrid space, images and words interact, shift and borrow from one another. WRITING & CONCEPTS challenges traditional approaches to writing and highlights new perspectives within contemporary practice.

WRITING & CONCEPTS takes its title from a critically-focused lecture series conceived by Jan van Schaik. It explores the many ways in which creative practitioners engage with writing as part of their artistic practices. With contributions from writers and artists including Maura Edmond, Nikos Papastergiadis, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Callum Morton among many others, this publication reflects on the 2016 lecture series. It is also a vital addition to A+A Publishing’s recently launched Documents Series. As its name suggests, the Documents Series engages with watershed moments in Australian art and writing through the collation of archival material, artworks, creative writing and contextual essays.