Dates:
Sunday 29 September 2024, 16.00-18.00 British Summer Time
Sunday 6 October 2024, 16.00-18.00 British Summer Time
Join us for a two-part online writing workshop exploring the idea of the game as method. An enquiry into the mechanisms of game-playing and language-games will lead us through structures of probability, possibility, performativity and poetics towards new words and worlds. We will think through complex systems of interaction, and across individual and collective exercises we will test rule-based combinatory and computational writing processes. The sessions will explore a range of approaches from ciphers, metafictions, extra-linguistic communication, environmental storytelling, anonymity, role-play, performativity, avatars and appropriative techniques. We will look to writers, poets, artists and theorists, such as Kathryn Scanlan, Donald Barthelme, Anne Carson, Adam Chodzko and RD Laing, to guide experiments along the edges of language, communication and meaning.
We welcome participants of all levels of experience, from all backgrounds and across all disciplines.
We will be prioritising early applications and spaces are limited so we recommend being quick!
Access
Sessions will take place online using Zoom, you will need a good wifi connection and a webcam to take part. Sessions will last two hours including some time for independent work and a short break. Please let us know if you have an access requirements so we can make sure to accommodate them!
The workshop requires active participation and you will need to feel comfortable engaging with screen-based exercises and conversations. No technical or digital expertise will be required, no specialist software will be used during the session. You will never be forced to present your work to the group.
Participants are warmly welcomed from all time zones! Please check the conversion to your local time zone.
We ask that when you apply you make sure you can commit to both sessions, there will be some preparatory reading and exercises to be done between the two sessions (1-2 hours).
Pricing
This programme is offered on a Pay What You Can basis. You are welcome to decide what fee you are able to pay but we offer the following tiers for guidance. Tickets include the two sessions. Please note concessions are not student discounts! Fieldnotes is a non-profit and registered charity, all income goes towards supporting our work, covering our running
costs, allowing us to offer fair pay to those involved and enabling us to keep our programmes low cost and accessible.
The tier prices are as follows:
£40 – Solidarity
If you have external funding or are financially secure, you are comfortably able to afford modest luxuries like overseas holidays or to set money aside in savings.
£30 – Standard
If you have a reliable source of income that more than covers your basic financial needs, you don't have to worry about the costs of nights out.
£20 – Low Income
If you work for minimum wage or have a similarly low-level income.
FREE – Unwaged
For those without a reliable source of income who struggle to cover their basic monthly living costs
Recommended reading / watching
Wrong Norma, Anne Carson
Compulsory Games, Robert Aickman
Impro for Storytellers, Keith Johnstone
The Dominant Animal, Kathryn Scanlan
‘If We Were Game’ from The Hundreds, Lauren Berlant & Kathleen Stewart
Knots, RD Laing
Plan for a Spell, Adam Chodzko
About
Fieldnotes is an artist-run publishing project based in Newham in east London. We produce a print journal twice a year and a public programme of workshops, radio broadcasts, screenings and readings. Founded in 2020, FIELDNOTES aims to promote and support non-conforming creative practices that pioneer new cultural forms. FIELDNOTES is a non-profit organisation and a registered charity (no. 1192461).
www.fieldnotes.site
