TALLER EN LA UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTERREY, MÉXICO

WORKSHOP AT UNIVERSITY OF MONTERREY, MEXICO

20th and 21st of November 2024

Throughout November, artistic researchers Emma Cocker, Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Cordula Daus, and Lena Séraphin were ‘in residence’ doing field research in Mexico as part of their collaborative project transitory writing in no one’s land. This project explores how collective, embodied and situated writing practices might create conditions for inter-subjective relations and the emergence of inclusive in-between zones.

The workshop at Universidad de Monterrey was conceived as a way of sharing the ongoing research from the project transitory writing in no one’s land. The research project is an inquiry into the embodied, bodily, situated and relational aspect of writing together, as well as the multilingual dimension of writing; any language can be employed and shifts between languages are welcomed.
The workshop began with an introduction to the overall project highlighting its basis within language-based artistic research. We introduced the practice of collaborative writing and reading in public space and how it might differ from a more solitary or even secluded aspect of (academic) writing. The practice employs scores for writing and we discussed if/how scores could be seen as restrictions and how they function whilst writing and reading.
The specific exploration for the workshop at Universidad de Monterrey was to share and reflect a sense of the arc of our current enquiry; beginning by grounding in an awareness of the sensorial body and situated embodiment and positionality; before opening towards an exploration of self-other awareness and joint attention.

Schedule for Workshop in transitory writing 20-21.11.2024

The workshop took place at the campus which differed from previous workshops in urban space and residential or commercial environments. The first day was concluded by a score titled Reverberation of Reading. It emphasised a return to the different points where the writing had happened and a silent reading back to the space. The call was to notice any resonances and differences between the text being read (and written a few hours before) and what was unfolding in the moment of reading.
During the second day we wrote with the score Say it Again that lets others’ writing influence one’s own. There are a series of stages to this score/prompt which involves writing, and the passing of a line of your text to someone else, who then takes this as their next prompt to begin writing.

The second iteration of the workshop has been carried out with Angel Marz in February and March 2025 with students at the Universidad de Monterrey.