Texts Not Necessarily Meant to be Viewed as Art

Editors: Roger von Reybekiel and Julie Cirelli

Graphic Design: Martin Falck

Published in November 2016 by Konstfack Collection

ISBN 978-91-85549-23-8

Texts Not Necessarily Meant to be Viewed as Art explores how contemporary artists use text in their creative processes. The project and publication focuses on artists’ writing and examines the thoughts, ideas, and techniques that structure an artwork. The publication features thirty Nordic and international contemporary artists and writers that have contributed examples of how text informs their processes. Texts Not Necessaily Meant to be Viewed as Art is a form of sourcebook for artists’ writing, which provides deeper insight into artistic writing in general, and grants public access to otherwise closed rooms: artists’ physical and virtual notebooks, text documents, folders and drawers. These rooms contain unpolished, often unfinished artists’ writing, and illuminate what’s sometimes lost in the editing process. The pages of the publication contain good and bad ideas, and sketches for work both finished and unfinished (perhaps forgotten or discarded). It presents a snapshot of the stage in the artistic process when the work has not yet landed in its final form and still is in motion.

Contributors Emanuel Almborg, Kari Altmann, Cory Arcangel, Darren Bader, J.K. Bergstrand-Doley, Magnus Bärtås, Annabell Chin, Di_Twins (Anna Rokka and Rut Karin Zettergren),Victoria Durnak, Jens Evaldsson, Lucie Fontaine, Ingrid Furre, Andreas Fägerskiöld, Tamara Henderson, Anna Kinbom, Pella Kågerman, Audun Mortensen, Magdalena Nordin, Olia Lialina, Marcus Lindeen, Hanne Lippard, Mara Lee,  Lina Persdotter Carlsson, Pia Sandström, Merzedes Sturm-Lie, Anna Uddenberg, Tris Vonna-Michell, Emily Wardill and Olav Westphalen. Konstfack Collection is a multidisciplinary publishing platform affiliated with Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden.

Images from the booklaunch at Index - The Swedish Conteporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, 2017

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