European Capital of Culture focuses on Art Writing

The artist Maria Fusco visits Aarhus to teach two master classes on Art Writing. Aarhus Literature Centre Project Art Writing and Aarhus 2017 are behind the event.

In June writer, editor and artwritingpionér Maria Fusco comes to Aarhus to teach two master classes on Art Writing. Maria Fusco comes from Northern Ireland and is the former head of the Art Writing program at Goldsmiths, University of London. Now she is Chancellor's Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art.

Project Art Writing aims to collect knowledge, develop and qualify the area for text-based art, and the goal is to establish a National Centre for Art Writing on Godsbanen in Aarhus. Practitioners of Art Writing found among writers, artists, researchers and students in the artistic and aesthetic subjects that work with text-based art and text experiments.