PostSuperFutureAsia - The Travelling Writing Workshop (The Southeast Asia Edition) 2020
Jointly presented by The Arts House & Grey Projects
The first Southeast Asia edition of PostSuperFutureAsia - A Writing Workshop
You are invited to build a future territory of Asia in the present by mapping practices of political imagination and of economic justice, from forms of living and speaking to modes of aggregation, self-organization and other collective practices. This workshop began in 2017, and has since been staged in Berlin, Taipei as well as Seoul.
This, the first online and Southeast Asian edition, draw from feminist, minoritarian as well as postcolonial perspectives to look at the social and cultural construction of our sense of place, country, region and territory.
This territory happened to be called Asia, or whatever a post-super-future version of it would be. Our working hypothesis is territory understood as geography is more than the bounds and expanse of place, but also an aggregation of discrete histories, ideologies and phenomenon associated with place and time that contextualized by inhabitants’ behaviours. In our vision, these islands of thought become an archipelago, yet in this future vision it is freed from the constraints of its geopolitical coordinates, no longer defined by any particular location or national borders, nor it is limited to any one part of the world. In another turn of phrase, this is to rethink the archipelago of our attachments, to reimagine the kinship of individuals as lovers, families, tribes, collectives and other forms of social relations. We think of the act of writing as a collective experience with multiple channels of production, and as the means to decolonize the borders of the future.
Information:
01 • Programme Dates: 18-20, 25-27 Sep 2020
02 • Programme Schedule:
Day 1:
1-1.15pm Introductions
1.15-1.45pm Artist Presentation 1, by Merv Espina
1.45-2.45pm Reading Session 1
Day 2:
1-1.30pm Artist Presentation 2, by Luthfi Zulkifli
1.30-2.30pm Reading Session 2
2.30-3pm Writing Discussion
Day 3:
1-2pm Sharing of Writing Projects
2-3pm Small Group Discussions
Day 4:
1-1.30pm Artist Presentation 3, by Diana Campbell Betancourt
1.30-3pm Sharing of Drafts
Day 5:
1-2pm Sharing of Writing Projects
2-3pm Small Group Discussions
Day 6:
1-2pm Final Sharing
03 • Deadline for applications: 29 Aug 2020, 5pm
To apply:
01 • A half-page bio
02• A short writing sample (2-3 pages) OR an expression of interest (1-2 pages)
Please submit:
a half-page bio
either a short writing sample (2-3 pages) or an expression of interest (1-2 pages)
Submit to: superfuture@greyprojects.org
Participants will be notified by 4 Sep 2020. Selected participants will be required to make a payment of SGD10 to confirm their place in the workshop. Details will be emailed to them.