Critical Writing Workshop
The Critical Writing Workshop provides a unique forum for participants to raise critical questions about the works showcased during the Sonic Acts Biennial and receive guidance from established critical writers and thinkers.
About the Workshop
Over the past ten years, Sonic Acts has facilitated the Critical Writing Workshop to cultivate ways of critically engaging with contemporary interdisciplinary art and research. Focusing on the various critical modes that can be used to write about, describe and discuss art, theory, sound and music, the workshop pays attention to works and performances more often overlooked by arts media or academia.
This year's expanded edition welcomes MA, rMA and PhD students, along with early-career critics, writers and researchers to reflect on their own trajectories with workshop facilitators Arie Altena and Katía Truijen. Invited to intervene, guest curators, researchers, and writers will facilitate dialogue with participants over a day. Guiding questions will consider how we write about today’s hybrid practices at the intersection of art, music, technology and science, while doing justice to their complexities and entanglements. What kinds of emotional, political and epistemic frames orient our discussions in respect to contemporary works, especially those that intersect or define various disciplines? What counts as critique and why? How else might critique be imagined and practised?
During a series of 5 meetings in October, participants will produce either a new essay, interview, extended review, or further a work-in-progress of theirs in relation to a work presented at Sonic Acts Biennial 2022, to which they will have full access. Participants may cover the symposium, performances and other events, or interview artists and theorists close to their own research interests. They are then invited to publish creative/critical reflections and outcomes in a special online edition of Soapbox Journal, a graduate cultural analysis journal based in Amsterdam.
Participation
The workshop invites 6 to 8 MA, rMA and PhD students, along with early-career critics, writers and researchers, to participate.
The workshop consists of 5 different meetings and participants are invited to attend all sessions.
→ Sunday 2 October from 11:00 to 15:00 at W139
→ Monday 3 October from 11:00 to 14:00 at Paradiso
→ Friday 7 October from 12:00 to 15:00 at Het HEM
→ Saturday 15 October from 10:30 to 18:30 at Likeminds
→ Saturday 22 October from 16:00 to 18:00 at W139
Applications for this workshop are closed.
Price: €50, including a Biennial Passepartout that grants free access to the complete public Sonic Acts Biennial 2022 programme.
For any questions please email us at workshop@sonicacts.com.