Gathering Ground

Gathering Ground was a generative walkshop series, using embodied reading, walking and making to expose and transform relationships between people and places. Participants took part in an embodied reading exercise which acted as a provocation for walking exploration based on the situationist technique of drifting. These practices were distilled through generative writing exercises.

I presented these workshops in person and online. In the online workshops, provocations are shared together in a Zoom call, followed by offline exploration by participants in their local area, who return to the zoom call to take part in the generative writing excercises.

Workshop themes and texts:

Life, Death and Discomfort

Text: Staying with the Trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene, Donna Haraway

NT Writers Festival, October 2020 (in person)

Making Kin 

Text: Shimmer, Deborah Bird Rose

Victoria University Place Pedagogies Seminar, October 2020 (online)

Working into the Cracks

Text: Pandemics as Portals, Arundahti Roy

Red Dirt Poetry Festival, August 2020 (online)

Finding Our Place 

Text: Recovering a Narrative of Place

NT Writers Center Series Mparntwe/Alice Springs,  April 2020 (online)

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