QOQQOON #2: The Means of Discursive Production

QOQQOON Issue 2 considers the role of writing by artists in shaping artistic discourse. Whereas art history contains many examples of artists producing manifestos or collective societies, contemporary artistic writing primarily occurs in the form of applications, proposals, and submissions. These supplicative forms of writing serve to reinforce the legitimating power of a curatorial class within artistic discourse. This issue features a variety of arguments, artist statements, and rare archival texts that think through the consequences of a supplicative discourse. Contents: “All things being singular (Mad in craft)” by Leigh Tennant (2019), “Metaphoric Exchange and the Discursive Commodity” by Steven Cottingham (2019), “A Delay in the Tangle” by Aileen Bahmanipour (2019), “On Autonomy” by OGH (2019), “On Realism in Art” by Roman Jakobson (1921), “A Conversation about Conceptual Art, Subjectivity and the Post-Partum Document” by Mary Kelly and Terry Smith (1995), and “The Means of Discursive Production” by Leigh Tennant and Steven Cottingham (2019).