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WORKSHOP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA, SPAIN

18th to 26th of April 2024

transitory writing in no one’s land is an inquiry structured as workshops interweaving situated, performative and embodied writing. The project 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. transitory writing in no one’s land facilitated a workshop 18.4-26.4
2024 at the University of Granada – Universidad de Granada (Departemento Didáctica de la Expresión Musical, Plástica y Corporal) with doctoral students in arts education and academic staff. The workshop began with an introductory talk on writing as both an aesthetic and an artistic research practice, and continued by explorative writing in a nearby public space, the Calle Circunvalación de la
Encina, during a week. The workshop followed a research arc moving from (1) Attention/Spatiality (focus on individual exercises); (2) A shift towards the multi-sensorial and beginning to open into shared attention; (3) A shift towards the potential of joint attention/the intersubjective and towards collective sense-making, and a move towards the notion of linguistic bodies constituted through
shared utterances (Di Paolo, Cuffari, and De Jaegher 2018).

The day-to-day program consisted of score-based writing. We began with a score having a descriptive title Walking in Silence. This score can be seen as an attunement practice of walking together in silence from the university to the place of writing situated in a residential area. The walk through the neighbourhood took us approximately 20 min and had the aim to activate an interval or a transition, through moving together in space, but also a movement of attention. The focus was on attending to the silence of being-together whilst observing and listening to the surrounding sounds, and on noticing rhythms and shifts in pace. Writing scores for the first days were e.g. Pulls of Attraction that starts by walking in space with an emphasis on: Notice the edges, allow for peripheral vision – an open gaze. When something catches your attention, move towards that, begin to write.
At some point, open your attention to a wider field, when something catches your attention, move towards that, begin to write. The writing followed a sequence of 3-7 points and was concluded with a mapping exercise.

Schedule for the workshop in transitory writing 18.4-25.4 2024

Thursday 18.4
12-14 introductory talk open to all at the University of Granada

Friday 19.4 (Focus on Attention/Spatiality)
12-14 first writing session in public space at Calle Circunvalación de la Encina  
16-18 first reading session in public space at Calle Circunvalación de la Encina

Monday 22.4 (Focus on Multisensorial/Shared Attention)
12-14 second writing session in public space at Calle Circunvalación de la Encina  
16-18 performative reading session and conversation of research topic

Tuesday 23.4 (Focus on Listening/Joint Attention)
12-14 second writing session in public space at Calle Circunvalación de la Encina,
transcription of texts

Wednesday 24.4 audio recordings of transcribed texts in a studio setting

Thursday 25.4
12-14 planning for public reading
14-16 performative reading at the courtyard of University of Granada followed by a research conversation.

Participants:
Ángela Barrera García
Romina Vera Barriga
Karen Sofía Vinueza Chávez
Luca Raven Flynn
Carmen González
Jaime Mena de Torres
Liliana Otero Caneodo
Carolina Roboyo Flores
Jorge Torrado Sanchez
Andrea Coyotzi Borja
Paula Urbano
Emma Cocker
Cordula Daus
Lena Séraphin

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