transitory writing in no one's land
CHOLULA, NOVEMBER 2024
* 4 NOVEMBER 2024 (Sensorial Body/Attention)
* 6 NOVEMBER 2024 (Positionality/Embodied Situatedness/Negotiation)
* 11 NOVEMBER 2024 (Awareness of Self/Others, towards collectivity)
* 13 NOVEMBER 2024 (Translation/Translinguality/Transposition)
Throughout November, artistic researchers Emma Cocker, Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Cordula Daus, and Lena Séraphin are ‘in residence’ in Mexico as part of their collaborative research project transitory writing in no one’s land. This project explores how collective, embodied and situated writing practices might create conditions for inter-subjective relations and the emergence of inclusive in-between zones. Between 4 - 13 November, the researchers engaged in a series of workshop sessions with researchers and students (from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla). With thanks to workshop participants: ______________________________
Over 4 days we worked together to develop and evolve the ongoing enquiry of the project transitory writing in no one’s land. The sessions followed the sense of the arc of our current enquiry: beginning by grounding in an awareness of the sensorial body and situated embodiment/positionality; before opening towards an exploration of self/other awareness; joint attention; sensitization to one’s cultural disposition by attending to the ‘between’ as well as commonalities/differences of perspectives and language. The hope was to open towards the potential of an emergent “we”, towards the collective – through shared acts of intimacy within writing in public; through various scores involving translation and translinguality.
