Tension Film: Online Writing Workshop
This online workshop responds to Nabokov’s notion of the tension film of “the now”, an idea which evokes the fragility of the present moment and our susceptibility to the seductive past, and brings it into conversation with Elizabeth Freeman’s work on queer temporalities. Participants will be invited to experiment with writing on the moving image, a medium that relies on temporal ruptures and allows us to re-examine normative narrative structures.
Specifically, the workshop will try to understand Nabokov and Freeman’s notions with reference to video recordings of dance: moving images of moving bodies. Over two consecutive evenings, using various dance scenes as prompts, participants will explore how a layer of tension might appear in (or be broken by) a text by experimenting with the role dance can play in writing. Some initial questions will be: as a non-verbal communicative form, how might dance be used to talk about and through the body, and about and through time, and what can we take from this into our writing? Can a text dance?
Writer Rosie Haward will give an introduction to the workshop, and will distribute various scenes, exercises and instructions to the group. After completing these participants will take part in a group discussion hosted on a video conferencing platform.
BIOGRAPHY
Rosie Haward is a writer based in Amsterdam. Her work engages with queer and feminist studies through experimental fiction writing, with a focus on visual culture, actresses and giddiness. She has an MA in Critical Studies from the Sandberg Instituut, and currently co-runs the queer reading group ‘Straight to Hell’.
This online workshop responds to Nabokov’s notion of the tension film of “the now”, an idea which evokes the fragility of the present moment and our susceptibility to the seductive past, and brings it into conversation with Elizabeth Freeman’s work on queer temporalities. Participants will be invited to experiment with writing on the moving image, a medium that relies on temporal ruptures and allows us to re-examine normative narrative structures.
Specifically, the workshop will try to understand Nabokov and Freeman’s notions with reference to video recordings of dance: moving images of moving bodies. Over two consecutive evenings, using various dance scenes as prompts, participants will explore how a layer of tension might appear in (or be broken by) a text by experimenting with the role dance can play in writing. Some initial questions will be: as a non-verbal communicative form, how might dance be used to talk about and through the body, and about and through time, and what can we take from this into our writing? Can a text dance?
Writer Rosie Haward will give an introduction to the workshop, and will distribute various scenes, exercises and instructions to the group. After completing these participants will take part in a group discussion hosted on a video conferencing platform.
BIOGRAPHY
Rosie Haward is a writer based in Amsterdam. Her work engages with queer and feminist studies through experimental fiction writing, with a focus on visual culture, actresses and giddiness. She has an MA in Critical Studies from the Sandberg Instituut, and currently co-runs the queer reading group ‘Straight to Hell’.
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