Writing Visual Relations

The artistic research project Writing Visual Relations will investigate possibilities of writing about visual art.

Through the literary mode of ekphrastic writing, the research will inquire into writing in relation to the non-photographic still image: invesigating the potentialities of writing the visual—while examining connections, differences and indebtedness between image and text.While there is a tradition within the history of visual art, as well as of literature, to critically engage with image and text, the area is fraught with issues.

With the continued focus on writing in fine arts education, increased possibilities of literary online publishing, and with the growing field of artistic research where writing plays a critical part, these issues are gaining both dimension and ubiquity.The research will be conducted through the transdisciplinary method of performance writing, and draw on new materialist ideas.

Considering the area and the actions (such as writing and performing language) performative rather than representational, the research will provide a thourough non-oppositional take on the relations between visuality and textuality, while interrogating their differences, and what these differeces do.The aim is to contribute with new knowledge transdisciplinarily to the field of visual arts, the literary field, as well as the field of artistic research itself.

An important objective is to provide with a research outcome that will also be of aid in higher education.