7 December 2024
002: Workshop
002: Workshop
When Fred Moten asks “Is there an underground railroad in the sentence?”
Saturday, 2-4 pm EST
17 West 17th Street
(between 5th and 6th Avenues)
New York, NY 10011
*see the archive and resources below
Join us at The 8th Floor on Saturday, December 7 from 2-4pm (rescheduled from Nov 12) for When Fred Moten asks “Is there an underground railroad in the sentence?”: an experimental writing workshop led by Scrawlspace artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed. This workshop, first incubated as a 10-week course entitled Wayward Sentences at the School for Poetic Computation, will foreground constraint, play, and collaboration as methods to generate more feral and intuitive writing.
The workshop is limited to 25 participants who should be eager for deep engagement with a range of proposals and methods, and will likely return home with new collaborative texts, maybe even a zine. This program is offered as part of Rasheed’s new initiative The Little Octopus School, a roving school for radical play and improvisation. This workshop explores the erotics of constraint – or the pleasure of having something withheld – a letter, a syntax, a structure, a method. Learners are invited to design gentle scores to generate new writing for future selves and writers alongside play with existing prompts.
RSVPs are required, and should you no longer be able to join, please cancel to give your seat to someone else. Rasheed has asked for participants to bring a sentence you have written, or one you find particularly compelling. You should also have your own laptop or notebook to write with, though we will have some backup supplies.
The workshop is limited to 25 participants who should be eager for deep engagement with a range of proposals and methods, and will likely return home with new collaborative texts, maybe even a zine. This program is offered as part of Rasheed’s new initiative The Little Octopus School, a roving school for radical play and improvisation. This workshop explores the erotics of constraint – or the pleasure of having something withheld – a letter, a syntax, a structure, a method. Learners are invited to design gentle scores to generate new writing for future selves and writers alongside play with existing prompts.
RSVPs are required, and should you no longer be able to join, please cancel to give your seat to someone else. Rasheed has asked for participants to bring a sentence you have written, or one you find particularly compelling. You should also have your own laptop or notebook to write with, though we will have some backup supplies.