In Other Worl(d)s: An Exercise in Collaborative Writing (Tea Hvala)
From Civilmedia
The workshop discusses and practices collaborative writing in the frame of group authorship and feminist-queer speculative fiction. We’ll hold individual authorship hostage for two hours. Because of time limits, we won’t wait for inspiration. Because we are not professionals, we won’t worry about controlling the narrative either.
Science fiction turns ideas into characters. Since ideas disguised as people are inevitably gendered, we will genderfuck with character roles and try to embody some utopian ideas along the way. But first, we’ll make up the characters and discuss the rules.
If you can, bring your notebook. If we have six, we can make an online zine immediately after the workshop. If not, bring your pen!
Type: Workshop
Details: http://prepih.blogspot.com/2009/10/exercise-in-collaborative-writing-at.html
Language: English
Suggested overall duration: 2 hours
Suggested number of participants: 6, no previous experience (or gender;) necessary
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Since writing is a linear process that takes time, our co-writing jam session pointed out, among other things, the difficulty of using new media tools made for exactly that purpose (real-time collaborations). So we grabbed a piece of paper, took our dusty pens out of our pockets, and wrote the stories by hand instead.
The basic agreement was that we are going to practice writing science fiction stories that involve three characters - Kim, V, and 0/1 - whose gender and other features are subject to change. The stories take place in Salzburg in the year 2050. Future editing, rearranging, and dismembering of the stories is encouraged!
Big thanks to Civilmedia organizers for making the workshop possible and, of course, to everyone who left the workshop room chuckling. Grateful grapefruits go out to the transcribers and decoders our charmingly illegible handwritings: Dušan, Debi, Jenny, Nikoletta, Imre, Christiane, Sarah, Paul, Red and Christian.
[edit] Stories in English
[edit] Stories in German
[edit] Stories in Slovene / Zgodbe v slovenščini
The following stories were written on February 1st 2010 as part of a workshop based on the same concept. The workshop Svetovi drugih took place in ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana. The stories were written by Vesna Lemaić, Tibor Bolha, Dare Pejić, Danijela Zajc and Tea Hvala. We agreed on writing about biotechnology and came up with two characters, a hermaphroditic cyborg called Vanja and a biomechanical "plant" called RX Vulgaris. In the stories, they were supposed to travel to Trnovo 2010 and they did it. Well, in most cases they did...
Details about the workshop: http://prepih.blogspot.com/2010/01/delavnica-svetovi-drugih-v-skuc-u-1.html
