Workshop | becoming neighbours
Wor(l)ding: Writing as a Rite
Visual: Luis Kürschner, Courtesy: Kofi Shakur / Black Student Union
This workshop dives into the ceremonious tradition of writing as a ritual, prescribed or customary, and crucial for holding narratives that exist within a neighborhood. The Gropius Bau’s Neighbour in Residence hn. lyonga invites participants to do language, in a manner that may be the benchmark of our lives.
Here, we want to look at writing as proposed by Toni Morrison, “as a facility that we have to tune out chaos and routine events, as a way of thinking – not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic, or just sweet.” Participants are invited to look at the ceremonious tradition of writing and to regard Storytelling as a way to engage with and within communities, to see it as a deliberate sowing of seeds, as an act of being neighbourly and as a place where our stories can rest their heads: How can we use storytelling to imagine futures and make sense of our wor(l)ds that can at times be very hostile? What are the ways that we tell our stories? How do we earth ourselves within places – that were not created with us in mind – in our stories?
This workshop is part of the programme becoming neighbours conceived by Neighbour in Residence hn. lyonga.
With Naima Moiasse Maungue and Makda Isak