Writing-with Others as Artist Pedagogy

Introduction

Aino-Kaisa Koistinen’s artistic research project examines creative collective writing, or writing-with, as a feminist, situated and embodied practice in the context of artistic thinking and artist pedagogy. The project considers writing-with not only as writing with other human beings, such as scholars or artists, but also as in the practice of writing with artistic, literary and academic traditions, personal and shared histories, more-than-human animals, natural and constructed landscapes, and other more-than-human actors.

What kinds of artistic thinking, situated knowledges, and poetic experiments does writing-with as a feminist practice bring to the fore?

What does feminist writing-with have to offer to the poetic, pedagogical, and also political, practices needed for making and teaching art amidst today’s interconnected environmental and social crises, also called the polycrisis?

To negotiate these questions, the project brings together feminist pedagogy, environmental pedagogy, and artist pedagogy, combining these with discussions in the fields of literary and cultural studies, artistic research, and gender studies (such as feminist posthumanities), as well as Koistinen’s artistic practice as a writer of poetry and speculative fiction.

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