COPY

Part of our activity includes developing COPY, which aims to explore the boundaries of critical and experimental art writing through publishing submissions of writing as or around art practice, and page based works with a critical / textual element.

COPY was launched at The Plaza Principle, an exhibition that took place within the partially vacant 1980s Leeds Shopping Plaza scheduled for demolition. In response to this context, the first edition of COPY was based around notions of the understudy or stand in – the examined, inquired or performed; the temporary, theoretical or illusory. You can see documentation of COPY at The Plaza Principle here…http://criticalwritingcollective.wordpress.com/projects/copy/

We intend to use our bursary to meet other groups working in the fields of self publishing and explore writing as art practice, as well as organisations that provide a platform for reviews and critical texts online. Some of the discussion will need to be practical – we need to conduct more research into the print and design options that would best suit us as well as better understand efficient editing, commissioning and administrative processes.