transitory writing in no one’s land (2024 – 2026) is a collaborative artistic research project that explores how the relational aspects of collective writing and the formation of shared spaces of attention might create conditions for the emergence of inclusive in-between spaces or no one’s lands. This project seeks to improve and diversify artistic research and its corresponding writerly methods by developing, testing and advocating for new practices of research writing that focus on collective, situated, embodied, performative, and multi-lingual approaches to language. It sets out to transform the solitary act of writing towards a collective experiential practice, bridging the corporeal and cerebral. transitory writing in no one’s land explores how embodied, performative and situated writing practices might open possibilities for not only writing but also for reading as a co-creative and participatory act. This enquiry considers the reciprocal relation between language-based practices and the formation of an inter-subjective potential, attending to the unexpected and unimagined experiences and encounters that might emerge therein.

transitory writing in no one’s land sets out to activate temporary communities and inclusive in-between spaces through a series of workshops for testing new practices of situated writing. This interdisciplinary research project is structured as a transnational itinerary involving five diverse sites for learning including schools, multicultural centres and universities: Vantaan Sanataidekoulu or School for Literary Arts, Finland, Universidad de Granada, Spain, Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), Mexico, Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), Mexico and Multicultural Center, Sweden. The workshops build on the notion of linguistic bodies constituted by relational utterances hosting an urge for unfinished becoming (Di Paolo, Cuffari, and De Jaegher 2018). It is this unfinished becoming as learning, as being in transition, and as transitory writing, that is sustained in the workshops rather than an accumulation of knowledge or transmission of existing approaches and skills. The project will further evolve through artworks, audio-essays and presentations that seek to activate an inter-subjective no one’s land for audiences beyond academia, alongside seminars, journal articles and research expositions, for sharing and showing this body of research and its findings with a wider research community.

transitory writing in no one’s land is a collaborative research project conducted by artists, researchers and writers Emma Cocker, Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Cordula Daus, Paula Urbano and Lena Séraphin who each bring specific research interests and experience to the project. Emma Cocker’s research explores embodied languaging through practices of experimental reading, conversation and listening. Andrea Coyotzi Borja’s research on the infraordinary unfolds towards the observation of social dynamics and the writerly subject. Cordula Daus explores the multi-lingual aspects of cultural, social and economic conditions, and the agential and performative dimensions of language. Lena Séraphin has conducted previous research on collective writing, its spatial interpretations, and the relation of writing and subjectivity. Paula Urbano’s work focuses on migratory issues, whilst her background as a curator and educator emphasises the role of facilitation. The project transitory writing in no one’s land is further supported by an advisory group that includes writer-curator PhD An Paenhuysen and artist-educator PhD Hannah Kaihovirta.

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