THE GHOST IS A MACHINE
WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT is a writing workshop that helps artists produce genre-defying supplementary materials to describe and contextualize their practice.
010 — A press release upon your enemies. Letting your biographical statement go buckwild. New Narrative for the ambitious and institutionally disinclined.
DISPASSION is a newsletter about art, digital media, and emotional detachment produced by NOR RESEARCH STUDIO.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
MONEY WOES is a seminar that prepares participants to recognize economic violence and develop financial independence in an industry filled with cloying, privileged assholes. Organized into recurring 90-minute sessions, the seminar breaks down basic labor law and grievance processes for contingent laborers in the creative industries. The forthcoming session will focus on employee misclassification and the tightrope many artist-creatives must walk to receive the compensation they are rightfully owed.
June 24, 2023
3pm ET / 2pm CT / noon PT
The seminar is hosted on Zoom. Tickets ($25 apiece) can be found here.
WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT is a 90-minute workshop for artists aiming to strengthen written materials about their work. Surveying a range of genre-defying artist statements, biographical summaries, press releases, essays, and chapbook-length publications, the workshop examines how these texts compress feral intuitions into potent allegories that dissolve creative blockages and attract institutional support.
July 1, 2023
3pm ET / 2pm CT / noon PT
The seminar is hosted on Zoom. Tickets ($25 apiece) can be found here.
HOW TO COMMUNICATE IN WHITE PEOPLE is a counter-institutional grant workshop that demystifies how artist-creatives can exploit grants to their own ends. Organized into recurring 90-minute sessions, the workshop is conducted in an open-inquiry format where participants have the opportunity to review sample proposals that have received institutional recognition, compare dummy applications, and receive feedback on their own proposal materials.
July 15, 2023
3pm ET / 2pm CT / noon PT
The seminar is hosted on Zoom. Tickets ($25 apiece) can be found here.
House rules for these events can be found here. Educators are encouraged to reach out via email to schedule sessions for their classes.
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WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT
July 1, 2023
3pm ET / 2pm CT / noon PT
The seminar is hosted on Zoom. Tickets ($25 apiece) can be found here.
NOR RESEARCH STUDIO is pleased to announce WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT, a 90-minute workshop for artists aiming to strengthen written materials about their work. Artists preparing to update their web portfolio; apply for fellowships, grants, and residences; publish critical writing about their practice; or otherwise produce supplemental media are encouraged to attend. During this session, we will review texts by Arnold Kemp, Vanessa Place, and Merlin Carpenter.
WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT holds that, once honed, the act of writing is a heretical means to peer into and manipulate the future. Surveying a range of genre-defying artist statements, biographical summaries, press releases, essays, and chapbook-length publications, the workshop examines how these texts compress feral intuitions into potent allegories that dissolve creative blockages and attract institutional support.
Of course, no NOR RESEARCH STUDIO workshop would be complete without a reprisal of the money-making strategies central to our investigations. Unlike other writing workshops, WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT focuses on supplementary materials that typically accompany artworks, using concepts from intellectual property law to preemptively integrate those materials into new bodies of work, grant proposals, and web portfolios.
WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT is an unrepentant evocation of bibliomancy and telekinesis. Like the imaginary poison pills that can ward off hostile corporate takeovers, the self-reflexive, didactic, and poetic texts surveyed in the workshop demonstrate how the gripping, sticky effects that consequential statements induce are frequently more real to the human psyche than reality itself.
WYATT CODAY is intersex and autistic. She lives in Los Angeles, where she directs NOR RESEARCH STUDIO.
WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT is an arts writing workshop that helps artists produce genre-defying supplementary materials to describe and contextualize their practice.
NOR RESEARCH STUDIO is a design research studio that develops didactic media, exhibitions, publications, and other forms of intellectual property for artists, nonprofits, and creative businesses.
If you’re an artist or creative trying to stabilize your practice, we want to work with you. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation here. You can also fill out this intake form, which makes for a great self-reflexive diagnostic tool. Feel free to drop us a line at wye@nor.la if you want to trade notes.