Abstract/Summary

'On Waiting … for their words to leave our mouth', began as a project with a deceptively simple proposition – to examine the relationship between art and literature. Emerging from shared research interests between F+F Schule für Kunst und Design, Zürich and Reading School of Art, Strauhof Museum generously became the locus and host for interactions amongst artists, curators, and learners. 'On Waiting … for their words to leave our mouth' is an edited reader drawing critical perspectives of the project alongside contributions from the exhibiting artists. Contributors to this reader reflect the multitude of questions posed, answering in a range of subject positions, arguments, and forms. Attention to the performative, fictive and material dimensions of writing, as both personal and social inscription, becomes apparent. This estranged literature, often poetic, often opaque, is captured across the pages. These uses of literacy and fiction embody experience for learning and knowledge. Call them poems, scripts, cognitive maps, metaphors, or narratives, the scripts within artists’ practices are how we describe the world to ourselves and share with others. We tell ourselves stories about ourselves, write about the world, raise our voices to others, alongside the drama of our experiences. F+F Schule für Kunst und Design, Zürich (Studiengang Kunst): Mirjam Bayerdörfer, Irene Müller, Daniel Hauser Reading Group: Julia Aschwanden, Soraya Gmür, Noah Joel Huber, Chiara Siciliano, Caroline Stadelmann, Kerstin Wittenberg University of Reading/Reading School of Art: Susanne Clausen, Alun Rowlands, Lisa Barnard Reading Group: Maria Garay Arriba, Malou Dobson, Lucy Harwood Design: Chiara Zarotti, Laura Lackner Strauhof: Rémi Jaccard, Philip Sippel Supported by Stadt Zurich Kultur, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, Migros Kulturprozent, temperatio Stiftung für Umwelt, Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim-Stiftung