"Shipping" (as) Fandom and Art Practice

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Parry, Owen G. (2019) "Shipping" (as) Fandom and Art Practice. In: Fandom As Methodology: A Sourcebook for Artists and Writers. MIT Goldsmiths Press, London, pp. 127-146. ISBN 9781912685134

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Type of Research:

Book Section

Creators:

Parry, Owen G.

Description:

This chapter draws a relationship between fandom and contemporary art by turning to fandom as a site of inspiration and motivation in my own art practice. More specifically it turns to “shipping”: a speculative method in fanfiction of creating new erotic relationships between characters or celebrities unsubstantiated in the official narratives or source texts, and characterised through fan- authored processes of imagining, re-writing and “fictioning.”

Using 'Larry!Monument, an example of my own art practice commissioned by Jerwood Arts London as a case study, this chapter explores how "Shipping" can be applied as speculative, transformative and subversive method in art practice.

Official Website:

https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/fandom-as-methodology/

Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed:

Art, Fandom, Shipping, Fanfiction, One Direction

Publisher/Broadcaster/Company:

MIT Goldsmiths Press

Your affiliations with UAL:

Colleges > Central Saint Martins

Date:

December 2019

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