Writing-with Others as Artist Pedagogy

Introduction

Aino-Kaisa Koistinen’s 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 and situated knowledges does writing-with others bring to the fore? What kinds of implications does this have for an eco-sensitive, eco-justice artist pedagogy? What does writing-with have to offer to the aesthetic, poetic, and also political, practices needed amidst the interconnected environmental and social crises (also called the polycrisis) of the so-called Anthropocene?

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, queer and gender studies, feminist posthumanities, ecofeminism, and animal ethics, as well as Koistinen’s artistic practice as a writer mainly focusing on poetry and speculative fiction.

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