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On writing and drawing: theorizing and practicing creativity with Roland Barthes

On writing and drawing: theorizing and practicing creativity with Roland Barthes

Publié le par Bérenger Boulay (Source : Dr. Delphine Grass)

On writing and drawing: theorizing and practicing creativity with Roland Barthes

 Ecrire et dessiner: Théorie et pratique de la créativité chez Roland Barthes

Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University

This interdisciplinary symposium places Roland Barthes’s theoretical writings on forms of creativity alongside his lesser known, but substantial, archive of drawings. Although, or perhaps precisely because, Barthes did not consider his drawings to be ‘art’, they can be viewed through the lens of his work on the neutral, textual pleasure, and authorship, and may even be seen to throw their own light on these theories. Assessing the role of such alternative texts in the oeuvre of one influential thinker also encourages us to think more broadly about how creative processes can both unfold within and shift across multiple media. Our presentations explore the work of further writers and artists who employ multiple media, as well as considering the theoretical and practical shifts that have occurred in our understanding of the underlying concepts of ‘text’ and ‘author’ since the advent of digital media and platforms.

2015 is the centenary year of Barthes’s birth and this event takes place on the date of his birth, 12th November. The symposium is a collaboration between Insight, a creative research centre based at the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University and Authors of the World, an AHRC-funded collaboration between researchers in the departments of European Languages & Culture, English & Creative Writing, Linguistics, History and Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University.

Speakers:

Rebecca Braun, Charlie Gere, Delphine Grass, Beth Harland, Sunil Manghani, Tom Mole, Eric Robertson.

Artworks exhibited by Jean Arp, Sally Morfill and Ana Čavić