The second event for Maria Fusco's project 'Dialecty’ is a talk by Dr Lauren Hall-Lew, Reader in Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Hall-Lew’s talk focuses on dialect, authenticity, and credibility, with a brief introduction to the mechanics of dialect analysis.
'Dialecty' is a new project conceived by writer Maria Fusco considering the critical uses of vernacular forms of speaking and writing. The project explores the occurrences and potential uses of dialect words, syntax and language within the field of contemporary art and question traditional orthodoxies of creative and critical writing within contemporary art.
Events with Lisa Robertson, Dr Lauren Hall-Lew and Scott Hames took place in 2017 and a series of chapbooks with writing by Harry Josephine Giles & Martin O’Leary, Robert McClean, Helen Nisbet, Lisa Robertson, Adam Pendleton and Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams have been co-published by Book Works and The Common Guild, as part of Co-series.
