Plural writing practices

Teacher : Raya Lindberg

1/ Plural writing practices in the form of writing situations combining documents and writing / Reflexive, theoretical and conceptual perspectives on writing devices. This is the "theoretical" part of the course, which introduces the practical exercises.

2/ Writing exercises, which not only explore different writing techniques and modalities, but also sharpen a critical and reflexive sense of personal artistic approaches, and encourage the identification of abstract issues in relation to questions arising from concrete practices - in preparation, in the medium term, for reflection on the dissertation. These exercises will culminate in various published forms.

3/ Exploitation of other language practices, mainly oral. The organization of readings and vocal performances will be an opportunity not to compartmentalize reflection and language creation on the text side.

Plural writing practices in the form of writing situations will combine documents and writing. Active sessions will highlight the dialectical relationship between speech and writing, as well as between writing and documents. The transmission of experience will involve writing without history, but also writing without writing from the document. These procedures will involve cutting up and rearranging text material from documentary sources. We'll be looking at ways of reorienting normal life, and writing reality from what it neglects, in order to find a form of expressivity in writing without prior subjectivity. These writing practices may give rise to experimental or completed editorial or performance creations. We'll also be writing about authors and texts whose imagination is shaped by the plastic and documentary form, when it is the expression of an aesthetic, a politics of language, but also of a speech and a writing of the voice, as well as a staging of bodies. Texts will be opened up to accompanied analytical reading, as much as experienced, in order to break out of monoform and open up to alternative writing, decolonized from the sole media idioms of language.