EMILIA-AMALIA SESSION VIII:
QUESTIONING THROUGH WRITING
Thursday, 2 March 2017, 6–9 PM

The last writing intensive session of EMILIA-AMALIA (“Alien Language,” November 2016) focused on autobiography and self-narration as feminist strategies for art making and writing. In this deep winter writing intensive, we’ll consider the flip side of that coin. Using a series of textual, filmic and visual prompts, participants will attempt to shed the skin of their own experience and ask questions from inside another body, or from outside the body altogether. In “Alien Language,” we thought about the political potential of writing one’s own story in a language that has only and always been designed by others. But is there any potential in attempting to write from outside the self?

There is no pre-reading required for this session. All writing will be spontaneous and formulated in response to various text, film and image prompts. EMILIA-AMALIA will provide the prompts, but we would love to include prompts from participants as well. This session is part of of a five-session arc exploring how to ask a question.