COLLECTIVE WORK: 3 free workshops
In the run-up to our COLLECTIVE WORK programme on the 21st of November and as part of its collective character, Maxime Garcia Diaz, Alma Apt, and Lola Swindles will each give a workshop. Participation is free for those who get a ticket for the program on the 21st of November. Sign up for one or more workshops by sending an email to alma.apt@gmail.com with a screenshot of your ticket!
Session 1, Maxime Garcia Diaz, 6 November 18:00-20:00 (Perdu book store)
Er bestaat al zoveel taal (NL)
Als een gedicht normaal gesproken uit een ‘lyrisch ik’ vertrekt, wat zou dan een lyrisch ‘wij’ zijn? Een mogelijk antwoord is: wanneer er meerdere sprekers aan het woord zijn. Maar wat als er één spreker is, die meerdere stemmen gebruikt? Die citeert en buikspreekt? Tijdens deze workshop gaan we met een kleine groep van vijf deelnemers onderzoeken hoe het principe van ‘gevonden tekst’ in poëzie – het gedicht als collage, dat citeert uit andere bronnen en bestaat uit discrepante elementen – ruimte opent voor collectiviteit of meerstemmigheid. We lezen een aantal teksten en werken aan nieuw materiaal. Deelnemers worden aangemoedigd om zelf gedichten of andere teksten mee te nemen die ze interessant of mooi vinden, ook als die teksten niets met het thema te maken hebben.
Session 2, Alma Apt, 13 November 18:00-20:00 (online)
More than we know: Collective writing and anonimity (EN)
In this online workshop, we’ll be exploring the possibilities of collective writing at a distance and the ways this distance can become the basis for a shared experience. We’ll be doing several exercises that lead up to a joint writing session, in which everyone is both writer and editor, and everyone’s writing becomes collectivized. This session explores themes around anonymity and feelings of ownership over text. There is space for a maximum of 6 attendants.
Session 3, Lola Swindles, 18 November 18:00-20:00 (Perdu book store)
Depressing Resistance (EN)
What is depression?/ If not an inability to be anything but yourself?
– from Dear, Comrade
In Dear, Comrade, the performance this workshop will lead up to, the characters are constantly struggling with their relationship to the world. As they speak of their experience of protest, they continuously get swallowed up either by the excitement and rush of the protest march, or by the isolating experience of constantly losing and the retreating into oneself for comfort. Sound familiar?
In this workshop, it could get sad – but not clinically sad, so don‘t worry too much. Precisely, because we are going to be countering a clinical understanding of depression, and instead try to understand depression as a social structure. We will be using Hannah Proctor’s Burnout as a starting point to understand depression as it is related to social struggles and the continued failure of resistance, and connect them to the great lull that has taken over Amsterdam after a year of intense student protests defined the city for a short while. Hopefully by the end of it, we will understand liberalism to be deeply depressing, and also hopefully, we will abandon hope by the end of it all. If we have bad luck, there will be some psychoanalysis in here, but we don’t need to get too pretentious. All kinds of educational backgrounds are very welcome, no expert knowledge required!