Sarmad Fiction Writing Club - 2021 Collection
Softcover
84 pages (A6)
Edited and designed by Sarmad Platform
Dec 2021
ISSN 2468-001X
This publication is the 2021 collection of Sarmad Fiction Writing Club, for which, we like to warmly thank all the club members who took the time to read and vote, and especially the artists who contributed with their writing.
The book includes 20 pieces of flash fiction from the following 18 artists/writers:
Andreea Breazu
Czar Kristoff
Arabella Paner
Arshia Eghbali
Andromache Kokkinou
Yufeng Yang
Zhaleh Farahani
Erik Visser
Eric Patel
Djatá Bart-Plange
Marianna Maruyama
Donglai Meng
Simon Oosterhuis
Su Kao
Chloë van Diepen
Eleni Palogou
Esther van Zoelen
Hossein Danesh
Czar Kristoff
Arabella Paner
Arshia Eghbali
Andromache Kokkinou
Yufeng Yang
Zhaleh Farahani
Erik Visser
Eric Patel
Djatá Bart-Plange
Marianna Maruyama
Donglai Meng
Simon Oosterhuis
Su Kao
Chloë van Diepen
Eleni Palogou
Esther van Zoelen
Hossein Danesh
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from the editors' note:
“Image”, we hear all the time. Everybody is talking about “image”, at least in our world, which is the world of visual arts.
At some point, as humble seekers of knowledge, we too, looked a bit into the subject and into the frustratingly fundamental question, what is “image”? The more we read (not intending to say that we read a lot), the more we realized that the answer was too elusive, at least to be put into words.
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This obsession with (only) the “graphic” image extends to the discipline of visual arts as well. In practising visual arts, most of the time, we seem to restrict ourselves only to what can be seen by the eye. If it cannot, it will be outside the confines of the discipline. If you make works in darkness, or if you write, you will have nothing “visual” to show in your portfolio, and if you can’t, what kind of a visual artist are you?
Questioning that exclusive understanding of visual arts practices was the basic inspiration for creating this fiction writing club. We would like to argue that creative writing, and in this case, writing fiction, is a valid practice within the discipline of visual arts, since, even though it does not work with “literal” imagery, it does actively employ dimensions of visuality such as “verbal”, “mental” and “perceptual” images.
This project in 2021 was kindly supported by Mondriaan Fonds and CBK Rotterdam.