“Are you just trying out the echo?” (Thomas Kling)

Students of the subjects "Curatorial Practice" (Class of Attilia Fattori Franchini) and "Painting" (Class of Anne Speier) at the University of Art Linz present texts created during a writing workshop in a public reading. The texts reflect on writing as a form of addressing and explore whether writing always requires an addressee—even if that addressee is absent, undefined, or even artificial.

Inspired by the exhibition HER at the Salzburg Kunstverein, the writers examine how one can write about, alongside, and in the presence of artworks without engaging in traditional art criticism. The texts emerge in resonance with artistic works, maintaining an improvised, process-oriented character that renders them as "works in progress." A central theme is the relationality between text, art, and recipients: How does writing change when the addressee is an artificial intelligence that agrees but does not establish a genuine connection? The reading combines literary motifs with current technological discourses and invites reflection on the boundaries and possibilities of written expression.