Fandom as Methodology: A Sourcebook for Artists and Writers
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3614
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Goldsmiths Press
- ISBN
- 9781912685134
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Art
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book explores fandom as methodology from a number of angles, providing a new model for scholarship across art history, fine art and performance studies. Firstly, it considers how fandom can help to think about contemporary artistic practice: the artist as fan, and the fan as a practice-based researcher. Secondly, fannish practices are analysed for how they can help approaching the writing of contemporary art history, in which subjective encounters with art and artists are not erased. Thirdly, the book expands what might be deemed scholarly writing on contemporary art to contain experimental writing, including poetry and fiction. _x000D_
In an extensively researched introductory text, Catherine Grant and Kate Random Love set out the potential of fandom of methodology for practice-based researchers, art writers and art historians. The format of the book plays with the conventions of an academic collection, with eleven scholarly essays set alongside twelve sets of artist pages - all specially commissioned and edited for this volume by Grant and Love. This combination of academic essays and artworks expresses a commitment to practice-based research as well as a wide range of approaches to contemporary art history writing. The book has been constructed to enable researchers and students to take up the model of fandom as methodology in their own practice of art making and writing._x000D_
As well as setting out the overarching theory of ‘fandom as methodology’ in the co-written introduction, Grant has contributed an essay on the fannish works of the American artist Amy Adler, setting out a theory of queer spectatorship that blurs the boundaries of artist and subject, celebrity and fan. These contributions formalize her decade-long research into fandom as a politicised mode of affective engagement that engages with feminist and queer histories.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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