Geplaatst op 07 Apr 2025
Presenters: Kate Briggs with guest Ella Finer
Duration: 2 days
Location: Orpheus Instituut, Ghent, Belgium
Participants: This is meant for docARTES doctoral students.
Program:
The premise of these two working days is that all writing involves working with others (with sources, with materials, with forces, with existing forms, with precedents...). Looking at and testing out the more explicit forms of collaboration (such as listening and translation) can be a generative way of registering and reflecting on the responsibilities of co-production, as well as finding freedom and possibility in it. Together, we will explore what it means to conceive of the page as a social space, and how this can impact on who and what you invite in (as well as how you set the terms for hospitality and interaction). Participants will be invited to reflect on their current methods of writing in company (reading, citing, arguing with, writing towards) and to explore or invent new protocols for acknowledging their collaborators.
Materials will be provided on the day.
Who is pacing the book, the writer or the reader? The reader or the other demands on their time which might be taking them away from reading?
Kate Briggs is a translator, editor and writer based in Rotterdam, where she teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute and co-runs the publishing project titled Short Pieces That Move! She is the author of This Little Art (an essay on the practice of translation) and The Long Form (a novel). Editing projects include: Silent Whale Letters by Ella Finer and Vibeke Mascini and, with Laura Haynes, A Social Process of Unknowing Yourself in Real Time: Work on Conversation.
Ella Finer is a London-based artist whose work in sound and performance spans writing, composing, and curating with a particular interest in how women's voices take up space; how bodies acoustically disrupt, challenge, or change occupations of space. Her research continuously queries the ownership of cultural expression through sound; often through collaborative projects centering listening as a practice of deep attention, affiliation, and reciprocity.