Writing-with Others as Artist Pedagogy
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen's project examines feminist practices of collective writing in the context of artistic thinking and artist pedagogy.

Introduction
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen’s artistic research project examines creative collective writing, or writing-with, as a feminist, situated and embodied practice in the context of artistic thinking and artist pedagogy. The project considers writing-with not only as writing with other human beings, such as scholars or artists, but also as in the practice of writing with artistic, literary and academic traditions, personal and shared histories, more-than-human animals, natural and constructed landscapes, and other more-than-human actors.
What kinds of artistic thinking, situated knowledges, and poetic experiments does writing-with as a feminist practice bring to the fore?
What does feminist writing-with have to offer to the poetic, pedagocical, and also political, practices needed for making and teaching art amidst today’s interconnected environmental and social crises, also called the polycrisis?
To negotiate these questions, the project brings together feminist pedagogy, environmental pedagogy, and artist pedagogy, combining these with discussions in the fields of literary and cultural studies, artistic research, and gender studies (such as feminist posthumanities), as well as Koistinen’s artistic practice as a writer of poetry and speculative fiction.
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Contact information for the project
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Aino-Kaisa Koistinen
- University Researcher, Tutkimusinstituutti, Research Institute
- +358504771386
- aino-kaisa.koistinen@uniarts.fi
Project name
Writing-with Others as Artist Pedagogy – Feminist Practices of Creative, Collective Writing in Times of Polycrisis (WriAP)
Time
01/2023-12/2026
Funder
The project is part of the Research Council of Finland funded profiling area “Artistic thinking that is driven by artist pedagogy”.
Collaborators
Uncomfortable Museum: Towards Safe, Brave Spaces, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Read more about the project here (only in Finnish).
Visual artist, researcher Susi Nousiainen. Read more about Susi’s work here (only in Finnish).
Pilvi Porkola: Performance Pedagogy – Politics of Art Pedagogy
Introduction
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen’s artistic research project examines creative collective writing, or writing-with, as a feminist, situated and embodied practice in the context of artistic thinking and artist pedagogy. The project considers writing-with not only as writing with other human beings, such as scholars or artists, but also as in the practice of writing with artistic, literary and academic traditions, personal and shared histories, more-than-human animals, natural and constructed landscapes, and other more-than-human actors.
What kinds of artistic thinking, situated knowledges, and poetic experiments does writing-with as a feminist practice bring to the fore?
What does feminist writing-with have to offer to the poetic, pedagocical, and also political, practices needed for making and teaching art amidst today’s interconnected environmental and social crises, also called the polycrisis?
To negotiate these questions, the project brings together feminist pedagogy, environmental pedagogy, and artist pedagogy, combining these with discussions in the fields of literary and cultural studies, artistic research, and gender studies (such as feminist posthumanities), as well as Koistinen’s artistic practice as a writer of poetry and speculative fiction.
Privacy policy
Contact information for the project
-
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen
- University Researcher, Tutkimusinstituutti, Research Institute
- +358504771386
- aino-kaisa.koistinen@uniarts.fi