Special Lecture
Jennifer HIGGIE:
How to Write about Contemporary Art:
Lessons from the Editorial Director of frieze

With support from Frieze Academy and Office for Diversity & Inclusion at Tokyo University of the Arts, Eri KAWADE – Research Associate of Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices at TUA Graduate School of Global Arts – is pleased to announce that Jennifer HIGGIE, Editorial Director of frieze, the leading international magazine of contemporary art and culture, will be conducting a public lecture ‘How to Write about Contemporary Art’, on the evening of December 7, 2017 at the Ueno Campus.

Date: Thursday, December 7, 2017
Time: 18:30-20:30 (Doors open at 18:10)
Venue: Lecture Room 5-109, 5th Building, Faculty of Music, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts

*All welcome. Admission free. Seats available on a first-come-first-served basis (Seating capacity: approx.  260). English-Japanese consecutive interpretation to be provided.

 

Frieze is a media and events company that comprises three publications, frieze magazine, frieze d/e magazine, Frieze Masters Magazine and Frieze Week; and three international art fairs, Frieze London, Frieze New York and Frieze Masters; a year-round program of courses and talks at Frieze Academy, and frieze.com – the definitive resource for international contemporary art and culture. Frieze was founded in 1991 by Amanda Sharp, Matthew Slotover and Tom Gidley with the launch of frieze magazine, a leading magazine of contemporary art and culture.  Frieze Academy was launched in 2016, with various programs taking place in London, New York and Berlin, one of which is a one-day workshop series “How to Write about Art”. The day-long lecture provides practical and inspiring advice from a range of internationally-renowned art critics and editors about how to respond to a work of art, review a show or profile an artist and more.

The TUA lecture is a condensed, two-hour version of the lecture and will draw on Jennifer HIGGIE’s 20-year-experience as a writer and editor. It will cover a range of topics such as pitching an idea to an editor, which publication to write for, and what editors are looking for. The lecture will be the first Frieze Academy lecture in Japan and will be conducted in English via Skype connecting London and Tokyo. Translations into Japanese will be offered to by the Hostess/Moderator.

Open to all the students and faculty members of TUA and the general public from outside of the University. Anyone who loves reading and writing about art, and who would like to develop professionally as an art critic, are welcome.

*No reservation required.
*If you wish to learn more in depth, click the links below and read the articles by the Lecturer prior to attending the lecture:
　　　https://frieze.com/article/your-head
　　　https://frieze.com/article/flesh
　　　 https://frieze.com/article/history-pictures-0
*Other referential materials to be provided at the entrance of the lecture room on the day of the event only.
*Contact Eri KAWADE at kawade.eri@fac.geidai.ac.jp by email if you have any query.

 

Reference:

From the Frieze Academy announcement texts of the first workshop “How to Write about Art with Jennifer Higgie”, in May 2016, London:

“Blogs, Twitter, self-publishing: everyone’s a writer now. But how many can really write well and – even better – make a living from it? In this full-day course, frieze editor Jennifer Higgie will give her insights into writing about art for journalists, critics, bloggers or anyone interested in getting practical and inspiring advice.

Subjects will include: 

• Who are you writing for?
• The different styles of art criticism
• Practical advice on becoming an art writer, from how to pitch, to what you can expect from the editing process and how much you should be paid.”

See below for more details and their upcoming events:
https://frieze.com/
https://frieze.com/academy/

 

LECTURER:
Jennifer HIGGIE
Jennifer HIGGIE is an Australian, London-based art critic, novelist, screenwriter and Editorial Director of frieze and Editor of Frieze Masters Magazine. Her texts frequently have appeared in frieze and Frieze Masters. Her publication includes a novel Bedlam (Berlin and New York: Sternberg Press, 2006), a children’s picture book There’s Not One (Scribe Publications, 2016) and a screenplay for the feature film I Really Hate My Job (Dir. Oliver Parker, 2007). She is also the editor of The Artist’s Joke: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2006. Cambridge MA and London: The MIT Press, 2007).  Her curation includes “One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People: A Selection by Jennifer Higgie from the Arts Council Collection” (Leeds Art Gallery, UK, et al., 2015-17).

https://frieze.com/tags/jennifer-higgie

 

MODERATOR:
Eri KAWADE
Research Associate, Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

Organizer: Eri KAWADE, Research Associate, Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Grant: Office for Diversity & Inclusion at Tokyo University of the Arts: “2017 Academic Year: Initiative for the Implementation of the Diversity Research Environment (Distinctive Features Type) ” Funds for the Development of Human Resources in Science and Technology by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Special Support: Frieze Academy/Frieze; Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Approved as: The Tokyo University of the Arts 130th Anniversary Official Program

 

Inquiry:
Eri KAWADE
Research Associate
Faculty Room, Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices,
Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Office Hours (Ueno): 10:00-19:00 (Mon, Thu, Fri)
Tel (Ueno): ＋81-(0)50-5525-2725
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Tel (Senju): ＋81-(0)50-5525-2732
Email: kawade.eri(at)fac.geidai.ac.jp
https://ga.geidai.ac.jp/
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