Montage in Writing – Workshop with 98weeks

Montage in film consists of an assemblage of separate filmed sections, which form a whole, no matter how fragmented. Sections are selected, pasted together, cut, deleted, and assembled.

The workshop’s starting point will be Steyerl’s text, The Articulation of Protest. Participants will be asked to produce material responding to the text, paying particular to the effects of conjunctions such as “and”, and, or, “or”. Since this is a writing workshop, we will mainly be working on the page, although participants are also welcome to collect sound and images during the research process.

The workshop will look at different writing techniques related to “montage” in the work of authors such as Kathy Acker, Tan Lin and William Burroughs. The outcome will be a collaborative text collating materials gathered by the participants. Throughout the workshop, the writing process—from note taking to copy editing to the final stage of publication—will be reflected upon as a form of production.

Sessions:

Friday, April 11
11am – 4pm – Session 1
Sampling, Plagiarizing, Appropriating

Saturday, April 19
3pm – 5pm – Session 2 – with Hito Steyerl
Articulations

Wednesday, April 23
11am – 4pm – Session 3
The Sentence as Montage. Led by Christopher Pérez

Friday, May 2
11am – 4pm – Session 4