Writing in the Vicinity of Art: Volume 1
publication date: 31 October 2023
hardback ISBN 9781739270087, 338pp, £20.00
paperback ISBN 9781739270094, 338pp, £12.99
ebook ISBN 9781739425708, £8.00
Writing in the Vicinity of Art: Volume 2
publication date: coming in 2025
hardback ISBN 9781739425722, 338pp, £20.00
paperback ISBN 9781739425739, 338pp, £12.99
ebook ISBN 9781739425746, £8.00
Contents List
Tracey Warr’s art texts have been developed as an ‘embedded’ writer, writing with rather than about artists. Throughout her various modes of art writing, she argues against binaries and focuses on the stream of consciousness, the more than human, and remoteness.
Her essays tangle with Punk Art, Body Art, Art and Ecology, Endurance Art, Performance Art, Site-Specific Art, and Women’s Art. Warr’s writing engages with the making processes of contemporary artists, including Marina Abramovic, Ackroyd & Harvey, Tine Bech, Brook & Black, Marcus Coates, Kati Gausmann, Bruce Gilchrist, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, London Fieldworks, Tuula Narhinen, Hayley Newman, Alan Smith, Emily Speed, Christian Thompson, James Turrell, Urbonas Studio, and more.
Tracey Warr worked at the ICA, London; the Arts Council of Great Britain; the Edge Biennales; and as an independent curator. She is the editor of The Artist’s Body (Phaidon, 2000); Setting the Fell on Fire (Editions North, 2009); Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture (Routledge, 2016); and The Midden (Garret, 2018). Her essays on contemporary artists have been published by Merrell/Barbican Gallery, Tate, Palgrave Macmillan, Intellect, John Hansard Gallery, Manchester University Press, and Performance Research journal. She worked as an academic at Oxford Brookes University, Glasgow School of Art, Dartington Arts School and Bauhaus University.
Tracey Warr
The Water Age Art & Writing Workshops
The art and writing workshops in this book engage creatively and playfully with the possibility that we may be living with more water in the future. The topic of water is explored through writing and art exercises that include aquatic biomimicry inventions, writing with maps, drawing inspirations from Vikings, and taking watery words on adventures. Illustrated.
published: 2018
paperback ISBN : 9780995490239, 66 pages
ebook ISBN: 9780995490246
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Tracey Warr
The Water Age Children’s Art & Writing Workshops
The water you drink has been through the bladder of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The water on Earth is 4.4 billion years old and came here from outer space. The octopus has three hearts and its eyes can look in two separate directions. What can we find out about water and aquatic flora and fauna? What imaginative ideas can we have about living with more water?
A book for teachers, artists, and writers working with children aged 8-11. Workshops include drawing and painting waterscapes, building waterscapes in the classroom, making models for water living, creating simple films, developing a story about a future watery world, performing and recording a story, creating an exhibition or broadcast, or turning a story into a book.
published: 2018
paperback ISBN: 9780995490253, 50 pages
ebook ISBN: 9780995490260
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