Inspiration

This is a library of activities and readings.

Please share your own favourite tools for creative inspiration, but keep in mind that all listings should be sympathetic to the ethos of this site. Only share content that you have created, or that you have permission to share from the creator.

Here's a guide on how to add your own activities and readings, to help you get started.

Artist Assignments
Derived from Chisenhale Studios' artist development program, Into The Wild's Artist Assignments are designed to help you develop your own practice and reflect on your specific context. Created by Esther McManus.

Writing your artist’s statement
A storytelling assignment by Gilda Williams, which was presented during the year's Into the Wild.

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Readings
Please add readings that have inspired you practice and a short introduction to why they’ve been important to you.

'''The Wild Beyond: With and For the Undercommons by Jack Halberstam. Introduction to The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten'''

"Moten and Harney want to gesture to another place, a wild place that is not simply the left over space that limns real and regulated zones of polite society; rather, it is a wild place that continuously produces its own unregulated wildness..." p.7

Gender Capitalism by Hava Carvajal and Maz Murray "The Right Lube"

Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age by Kenneth Goldsmith

Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life by Allan Kaprow

Purity and Danger: an analysis of the concepts of pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas

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