Preamble: Between 2007 and 2009 I worked for the Triangle Network from the Gasworks office in London as an administrator, before leaving to pursue my Masters at Goldsmiths in Art Writing. Having worked for Triangle and noticed that art writing and criticism was increasingly important to Triangle’s partners, I decided to write a ‘practice-based’ thesis that examined the developing spaces for art writing within the international contemporary art world. The thesis particularly focussed on the problematics of written analysis produced within and distributed across the ‘international contemporary art world’, along with the issues that writers face when they outstep the comfort of their own knowledge-spheres. This was an over-ambitious topic, which became even more daunting given the scope and complexity of the places I was able to visit as part of the research, and the avenues that these researches opened up. Read the rest of this entry →