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*Stet |stɛt| [imperative verb]: let it stand; an instruction on a printed proof to indicate that a marked alteration should be ignored; a performative writing retreat on commemoration and constructive forgetting.
Dates: 13-16 August 2016
Times: Over the four-day retreat we will work together for six hours in each day, but never the same six: 12-6pm, 6pm-midnight, midnight-6am, 6am-noon.
Location: Edinburgh (exact location TBC)
Deadline for applications: 14 June 2016, 5pm
Applications are now open from any technicians with language in their toolbox, particularly those interested in experimental writing, avant-garde composition, words as material, history and culture as something we do even as we read and write it...
This retreat is an opportunity to explore the forms and genres of performative writing, and experiment intensively with radical methods of making histories. When should we conserve and when should we allow things to degrade? How should we remember and what should we forget? Are there elements of our archive that could benefit from tampering, tweaking and interfering?
Over four days, seven artists will tap our global, national and collective histories as a vehicle to explore the politics and practice of performative writing. We’ll look at history as an act of agency; (un)making the past, we’ll overwrite, redact, erase, edit, highlight, conserve. Participants will be invited to experiment with materials from handmade paper and ink, wood and metal, and code, finding befitting ways to commemorate and forget. Evocative meals provided.
This workshop is free to attend (accommodation and food included), but we cannot offer reimbursement for travel expenses.
You can find more information, and details of the application, here: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/opportunities/diy-13-2016-season-butler/
This project is presented with the support of The Live Art Development Agency and Forest Fringe
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