Join us for a workshop exploring cut-up and collage techniques for creating experimental new works between text and image. Starting with a range of textual and visual source materials we will follow a series of individual and collaborative prompts to explore the edges of language and to subvert ideas of authorship. We will focus on the balance between chaos and control as we advance new recombinatory systems of (dis)articulation and (de)composition in order to enter into surreal and poetic realms of meaning. We will be looking for new ideas between the loops of translation and the spaces of transition. By undoing and reassembling our materials we hope to reveal unexpected patterns and forms which might shape future ways of working.

All levels of experience welcome! Materials will be provided. Please bring destructive/creative energy.

This workshop is free for those on low incomes or unwaged, please email us to recieve a concession code: info@fieldnotes.site

Please stay on afterwards for the launch of FIELDNOTES Issue 6! This is a free event with readings from FIELDNOTES friends and contributors, 6-8 pm at Hopscotch Reading Room.

ABOUT

FIELDNOTES is an artist-run publishing project based in Newham in east London. We produce a print journal twice a year alongside a public programme of workshops, mentoring opportunities, radio broadcasts, screenings and readings. Founded in 2020, FIELDNOTES aims to promote and support non-conforming creative practices that pioneer new cultural forms. We seek to challenge the systemic inequalities that limit opportunities in the arts by working with individuals and communities who may not find support elsewhere. Our purpose is to provide a test site for poetic innovation, a place for new voices and collaborations, a venue for experimental modes and fresh departures between disciplines. We are interested in the third thing between two known things; we are looking for the spaces between translations and transitions.

HOPSCOTCH READING ROOM is an English language bookstore centering anti-colonial, non-western, diasporic and queer perspectives.