
Wiebke Leister, Echoes and Callings (female cast), 2018
© Wiebke Leister
Invitation to work as part of a research group devised by artists Beverley Carruthers and Wiebke Leister, which investigates contemporary modes of collaborative image-text-production.
Since 2015, the Writing Photographs project focused on how contemporary lens-based media integrates text and writing in cross-disciplinary installations and performances.
In collaboration with CRASSH at the University of Cambridge, the group is now organising two network meetings for an invited peer group of artists and writers, to discuss hybrid relations of image-and-writing-works. The meetings will take place at CRASSH on Friday 9 June and Friday 15 September 2023, from 11:30 – 16:30.
Participants will then work towards an exhibition at the Alison Richard Building which will take place from 15 February – 15 March 2024, along with a conference / public event, allowing for artistic, literary and methodological contributions.
If you are interested in participating, please email the following to the organisers:
– One page of A4 with a short bio and a description of an ongoing or new Text-Image project
– A few samples of your work
– A short description of how your work would benefit from taking part in a research group context and how you see possibilities for collaborative exchange and co-operation as part of this project development
Possible topics for discussion during those initial workshops may include the following, but please make suggestions for topics to be discussed as part of your response to this CFP:
– Text+Image Migrations: translation, transcription, transformation
– Text+Image Remediations: intermediality, reproduction, intertextuality
– Text+Image Interpretations: (creative) mis-recognitions and mis-identifications
– Text+Image Automations: constructed and generated content
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023
Further details can be found on the CRASSHÂ website

WITTAnights are a place for showing, reading, listening and trying things out.

Calling all artists who write, writers who art(!) and everything in between: tell us more about your work.

The WITTA podcast – hosted by Lizzie Lloyd and Kit Poulson – invites guests to reflect on why they do things with words, how they do things with words and what words allow them to do that other materials don’t.

Through various WITTA events, working with participants and collaborators within and beyond the university, questions have emerged.

This WITTAfilm was made from interviews and materials gathered at an informal week-long creative residency / experiment called WITTAverse.

In July 2023, WITTAverse happened. It was a week-long event which involved a range of artists, writers, composers, and students.

Members of the Ways of Writing in Art & Design (WoW) network, which is housed within the Visual Culture Research Group, have written and guest edited the first of two special issues of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice.

Invitation to work as part of a research group devised by artists Beverley Carruthers and Wiebke Leister, which investigates contemporary modes of collaborative image-text-production.

Freya Dooley and Cinzia Mutigli’s ongoing collaboration spans writing, performance, sound and moving image.

In this inaugural event we invite Polly Barton and Daniela Cascella to discuss translation, relationships between art, writing and sound, and what it means to write between disciplines.

This evening of conversation with artist Katy Beinart, writer Lizzie Lloyd and curator Marianne Mulvey will consider their shared interests in socially engaged or participatory art projects.
WITTA (Writing In / To / Through Art) is the start of what I hope to become a fully fledged research group at UWE Bristol.

Wiebke Leister, Echoes and Callings (female cast), 2018
© Wiebke Leister
Invitation to work as part of a research group devised by artists Beverley Carruthers and Wiebke Leister, which investigates contemporary modes of collaborative image-text-production.
Since 2015, the Writing Photographs project focused on how contemporary lens-based media integrates text and writing in cross-disciplinary installations and performances.
In collaboration with CRASSH at the University of Cambridge, the group is now organising two network meetings for an invited peer group of artists and writers, to discuss hybrid relations of image-and-writing-works. The meetings will take place at CRASSH on Friday 9 June and Friday 15 September 2023, from 11:30 – 16:30.
Participants will then work towards an exhibition at the Alison Richard Building which will take place from 15 February – 15 March 2024, along with a conference / public event, allowing for artistic, literary and methodological contributions.
If you are interested in participating, please email the following to the organisers:
– One page of A4 with a short bio and a description of an ongoing or new Text-Image project
– A few samples of your work
– A short description of how your work would benefit from taking part in a research group context and how you see possibilities for collaborative exchange and co-operation as part of this project development
Possible topics for discussion during those initial workshops may include the following, but please make suggestions for topics to be discussed as part of your response to this CFP:
– Text+Image Migrations: translation, transcription, transformation
– Text+Image Remediations: intermediality, reproduction, intertextuality
– Text+Image Interpretations: (creative) mis-recognitions and mis-identifications
– Text+Image Automations: constructed and generated content
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023
Further details can be found on the CRASSHÂ website

WITTAnights are a place for showing, reading, listening and trying things out.

Calling all artists who write, writers who art(!) and everything in between: tell us more about your work.

The WITTA podcast – hosted by Lizzie Lloyd and Kit Poulson – invites guests to reflect on why they do things with words, how they do things with words and what words allow them to do that other materials don’t.

Through various WITTA events, working with participants and collaborators within and beyond the university, questions have emerged.

This WITTAfilm was made from interviews and materials gathered at an informal week-long creative residency / experiment called WITTAverse.

In July 2023, WITTAverse happened. It was a week-long event which involved a range of artists, writers, composers, and students.

Members of the Ways of Writing in Art & Design (WoW) network, which is housed within the Visual Culture Research Group, have written and guest edited the first of two special issues of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice.

Invitation to work as part of a research group devised by artists Beverley Carruthers and Wiebke Leister, which investigates contemporary modes of collaborative image-text-production.

Freya Dooley and Cinzia Mutigli’s ongoing collaboration spans writing, performance, sound and moving image.

In this inaugural event we invite Polly Barton and Daniela Cascella to discuss translation, relationships between art, writing and sound, and what it means to write between disciplines.

This evening of conversation with artist Katy Beinart, writer Lizzie Lloyd and curator Marianne Mulvey will consider their shared interests in socially engaged or participatory art projects.
WITTA (Writing In / To / Through Art) is the start of what I hope to become a fully fledged research group at UWE Bristol.