A Place for Writing: A creative laboratory by the collective Digital Object Alliance
What can you write about when you can’t speak? The laboratory A Place for Writing is designed to construct expression in the situation of uncertainty created by numerous events that have generated an information fog. The laboratory aims to disperse this “fog” through working with text as an artistic object and as a collective practice of expression.
The result of the laboratory will be individual and collective texts created under the careful leadership of the tutors.
SCHEDULE
November 24, 11:30–13:00
December 1, 11:00–13:00
December 8, 11:00–13:00
Participation
The number of places is limited. To take part, please fill in an application form. Experience of writing texts or training in the field is not required. You should only apply if you can attend all three meetings of the laboratory, on November 24 and December 1 and 8 from 19:00 to 21:00.
Авторы
Digital Object Alliance (DOA)
is a collective founded in 2017 by artists Sasha Puchkova and Anya Leonova, whose practice focuses on digital performance, artistic research, and participatory practices. It is a metamorphous experimental alliance formed around an expanded understanding of digital objects.
Sasha Puchkova
(b. 1989, Baikonur) is an artist. She works with the genre of fiction, and her key themes include future femininity, emptiness, and observation. Shegraduated from Altai State Technical University’s Institute of Architecture and Design and from Moscow’s Rodchenko Art School. She participated in the international curatorial course What Could Should Curating Do? (Belgrade). She is a resident at Garage Studios. She lives and works in Moscow.
Anya Leonova
(b. 1992, Moscow) is an artist and studies in the Interactive, Communication and Mixed Media and Video Art workshops at Rodchenko Art School (Moscow). She studied at the Experimental Sound and Multimedia Technologies courseat SA)) studio, was a member and mediator of the laboratory on prototyping future trends at the National Center for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), and completed a historical storytelling workshop at the International Memorial. She is a member of the self-organized collectives of female artists SHSHSH and Practice Affectology Unit and aresident at Garage Studios. She lives and works in Moscow.
Autovirus
is an independent literary webzine publishing autofiction texts in Russian. webzineautovirus.com
Olga Akimova
is a candidate of philological sciences and a docent in the Department of Foreign Languages of the Higher School of Business at Moscow State University. She graduated from the Cultural Management program at Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences. She is the author of a business writing course, a teacher of business English, and the co-author of the textbooks English for Entrepreneurs and Milestones. She is a member of the Russian Association of Cognitive Linguists. She lives and works in Moscow.