Master of Fine Art School of Fine Art
Oliver Canessa
Oliver Canessa (b. 1994, Gibraltar) is a multidisciplinary artist and poet who works across text, sculpture, sound, video, installation and print. Canessa read a BA in Psychological & Behavioural Sciences at the University of Cambridge (2014–2018) and in 2020 he was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize for his piece Invitation to Untitled. His poetry will appear in A Social Process of Unknowing Yourself in Real Time, edited by Kate Briggs & Laura Haynes, in 2024.
The Epistemic Injustice of Artspeak
This paper brings theories of epistemic injustice from moral philosophy and epistemology to contemporary art language. It contends that this language in question, artspeak, qualifies as a serious instance of epistemic injustice that has hitherto been unexamined in this light.
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Unpublished Master’s Thesis
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54 pages
