This workshop is part of a wider set of practices which engage and explore writing as an embedded, embodied, material, situated, and performative practice.

It invites an experience of writing as a relational process, i.e. as a process
– which engages various forms of relating with the specific medium in which the writing takes place, with one's own bodily condition while writing, with the space of linguistic possibilities, with pre-existing texts and ideas...

– which activates different kinds of relationalities between the writer and the text, the text and the reader, between different readers... 

The practice is critical to the extent that it departs from a still widespread understanding of writing as an activity of the mind performed by an autonomous individual. It is creative in the sense that it explores concrete alternative to this understanding.

Accordingly, the practice does not start from pre-existing genres or categories, but invites to transversal journeys across fields and to the exploration of hybrid textualities.

Drawing on the criticism of self-enclosed individual subjects, it asks: How to write as relational subjects? What does it mean to write in a way which overcomes the dichotomy individual / collective?

The practice takes such an approach to writing as a starting point which it intends to flesh out in specific contexts.

At the same time, the implementation of this approach in concrete situations is intended as an investigation of what it means to engage writing as a relational process.

The assumption guiding the practice and its implementation in concrete situations thus mutually shape and refine each other in the course of the practice.