Adult Writing Workshop “More then less” with Laurence Cathala
A writing workshop conceived by artist Laurence Cathala in connection with Beatrice Bonino’s exhibition "In the main in the more".
Open to all, with registration required: [email protected]
In Beatrice Bonino’s exhibition, certain works seem to waver between object, image, and form. Like those garments that are not quite garments at all, with an indeterminate scale; or those crushed chocolates that revive the memory of another artist, Dieter Roth, and his "Flacher Abfall" (“flat waste”), through which he archived his daily life in 623 A4 binders…
In literature, the “genetics” of texts is a method of analysing documents that aims to study all the versions and drafts of a text in order to understand its process of creation before the final form. The writings and their material supports are likewise laid bare, sometimes becoming striking images — images that reveal themselves gradually. American poet Susan Howe speaks of a kind of “telepathy” within archives, for example when reflecting on the poems Emily Dickinson wrote on the envelopes of letters she received.
Drawing from a guided tour of Beatrice Bonino’s exhibition "In the main in the more", Laurence Cathala will invite participants to experiment with personal and collective writing drawn from the everyday, following the principle of daily narrative.
With particular attention to materials and to the gestures through which texts are transformed, we will work through accumulation, then subtraction and removal.
