Site Writing

Site Writing

"The writing projects displayed on this website, curated by Jane Rendell, come from writers whose work is engaged with, and/or relates to, the concepts and processes of ‘site-writing’. Some texts have been produced on the site-writing module of the MA Situated Practices and Architectural History, and as parts of doctoral theses Rendell has supervised, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; others come from writers worldwide who are experimenting with new kinds of spatial writings that are critical, performative, relational and situated. Rendell introduced ‘site-writing’, first in 2005, and then in her 2010 book, Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism, as a critical spatial practice that explores what happens when discussions concerning situatedness and site-specificity inform the practice of writing. Site-writers reflect both on how their own subject positions relate to their particular objects and fields of study, and also on how their writing practice engages materially with their audiences and sites of inquiry. Site-writing draws out the spatial qualities of those interactions between writers and readers on the one hand, and sites and texts on the other, including spaces material, political and conceptual, as well as those remembered, dreamed and imagined."

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