The Library
The AD librarian will collate, organise and list relevant texts, novels, sound pieces, films, written works, events and any other related material that provides a sense of the ground covered and the range of work that can be said to fall into the category of art writing.
What art writing is, its genealogy and history, is left open to the librarian to make sense of. Although this is a highly experimental way of constructing a database it will quickly provide a example of listings including key works by practitioners living and dead, and an overview of art writing.
Stored in the library will be interviews with artists about their writing, lists of books and links to artists, writers and events.
Q&A
Initiated in 2008, we present an ongoing series of interviews with artists about their writing. The series will offer an insight into why artists write, how they started writing, what their writing process is and what part writing plays in their art practice.
An edited version of an interview with Jon Thompson; the complete text is published in the book The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson (Ridinghouse, 2011).
This interview with Paul Rooney was recorded in March 2011 in Liverpool and precedes the publication of Dust and Other Stories by Paul Rooney (Akerman Daly & Aye Aye Books, forthcoming).
Balraj Khanna’s first novel, Nation of Fools, was adjudged one of the 200 best novels in English since 1950. An artist and curator, he has also written and published books on Indian art as well as a children’s story book, Rajah, King of the Jungle. In this interview with Akerman Daly he talks about writing and painting: ‘the same man doing two different things implies a certain conjunction’.