This workshop follows from the processes that were developed among fifteen co-authors across almost as many international time zones. Our writing collective was established following the canceled PSi conference in 2020, and it grew to develop multiple articles, conference presentations, and an edited special journal issue, as well as a collaboratively authored full-length book project, Mourning the Ends: Collaborative Writing and Performance, that is forthcoming with the Advanced Methods: New Research Ontologies Series at Punctum Books.
Now, we invite you to join us! The workshop is developed as an encounter with other artist-scholars as an opportunity to collaborate across distance and through difference. With the conference theme of assembly as our starting point, we ask that participants bring ideas or a constellation of topics that you are enthusiastic about and would like to work on with other performance practitioners and scholars. Through this workshop, we are also interested in further developing and expanding methodologies for shared and collaborative writing and creation in and through performance studies. The workshop is open to all who are similarly inclined and we welcome the opportunity to think, write, and create work together.
The hybrid/remote workshop will begin with various practices of writing and editing together in a shared online document. We will then turn toward more specific topics and potential projects that our group finds compelling to work on. By the end of the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to end their participation or to continue their collaboration at yet to be arranged meetings with the remaining group or with smaller clusters.
The workshop entails a commitment to meet on Zoom for two sessions in the weeks prior to our third hybrid meeting at the conference. Participants will be asked to contribute writing asynchronously before and between meetings and the workshop session at the conference will be open to others to observe and participate.
This workshop is part of the Ends Network: performingends.com
We look forward to hearing from you by May 10, 2024.
Organizers: Renata Gaspar, Sozita Goudouna, Eero Laine, Sarah Lucie, Juliana Moraes, Aneta Stojnić
Please direct any inquiries to: aneta.s7@gmail.com; jumoraes@unicamp.br; lucie.sarah@gmail.com; renata.cgaspar@gmail.com; sozita@gmail.com; eero.email@gmail.com
Eero Laine