Lecturer, Conducting Critical Artist Interviews, The Academy of Fine Arts & Aalto University

Lecturer, Conducting Critical Artist Interviews, The Academy of Fine Arts & Aalto University


This workshop aims to provide artists, curators, educators, and other arts
professionals at all stages of their careers with a greater understanding of the
methods and skills needed to conduct meaningful artist interviews.

To democratise overlooked art-historical narratives and to lay the groundwork

for contemporary ideas, one must pay attention to individual artist voices.

Particularly for artists and scholars belonging to different marginalized groups,

the lack of critical voices perpetuates ways in which these communities feel

excluded from knowledge-production that is definitive of their experiences.

Artist interviews focus on exploring artworks, but in the voice of the artists that

do the work through months of research and practice. Interviews construct the

artists’ public image, increase their visibility in the public domain and aid the

commercial appeal of their art. Artist interviews can be seen as an independent

critical genre through its situatedness at the intersection of art history, critical

practice and dialogic aesthetics.

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