Liz Lerman Critical Response Process

(thanks to Dorothy Santos for introducing me to this!)

• Full Liz Lerman Critical Response Process
• After work is presented, there are four steps:
  1. Offer statements of meaning. Refrain from using phrases such as “I liked” or “I loved”, and instead mention what was meaningful, evocative, interesting, exciting, and/or striking.
  2. Then the artist poses questions. Before the critique session, the artist comes up with craft-based questions. Not: what do you think? More like: does the typography add to the cursed aesthetic? What themes do you think are present in the word? Responders can then answer these questions.
  3. The responders pose neutral questions. These questions have no embedded opinion! For example, “how would you define your voice/style/aesthetic in this work”?
  4. Responders state opinions. With consent! For example, “I have an opinion about the use of distortion on the guitar in this track, would you like to hear it?”