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Creative & Scholarly Work
Exploring the intersections of language, performance and embodiment
Writing workshops
Silence, Movement, Translation
This workshop leads participants in exploring how silence and movement can be used to generate creative texts. Drawing upon Anne Carson’s concept of “metaphysical silence” as well as her investigation into the notion of translation, participants are asked to approach texts as bodies that contain untranslatable silences. Guided by the lens of “relationality” within reproductive theory, movement exercises provide an experiential way of seeing writing as a process of discovery, disruption, and negotiation. Additionally, participants are asked to produce texts using constraint-based exercises that are later performed as embodied expression.
Poetry, Consciousness, Birth
This workshop is open to anyone who is interested in processes of transformation that set the stage for moments of acute insight. In this workshop, in collaboration with artist/musician Cole Highnam, we will explore how physiological changes become pathways to access altered states. Along the way, we will chart parallels in the manner in which undisturbed childbirth and acts of creation have been co-opted by mechanistic and capitalistic worldviews emphasizing production over process. In the spirit of maintaining our creative agency, we summon the cosmic from the quotidian. Proprioceptively, we come into our bodies as they are, and through verbal, aural and visual cues, venture along an inward trajectory that brings us deep into our innate poetic capacity, for we are natura naturans: “nature doing what nature does.​"
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Archeology of Milk
This is a digital microarchive that adopts the question "What is at stake in the production of knew knowledges about milk?" from Roslyn Malcolm's article "Milk's flows: Making and transmitting kinship, health, and personhood." It is dedicated to exploring the "transmission of milk" from historical, theoretical, and lived perspectives.
CLIP
CLIP is a digital journal of art and writing currently curated by Sonja Bjelić and Cole Highnam; past collaborators include Jioayang Li and b ferguson.
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