On Wednesday 22 June 2022, 19:00–19:30 AEST to coincide with the launch of Issue 45: Asemic, Runway Journal hosted a participatory performance of the work ‘Writing the Virus’ with the Expanded Writers Collective. Audiences were invited to join the Zoom grid in this live, collective reading.
What are you? anxious. sick. relieved. stressed. resting. working. so enjoying this process. a coven. a girl band. a support network. friends. settlers. immigrants. fluid. riffing. sonorous. multiple. not playing solo. a reader. a chorus. one of many voices. feeling more comfortable calling myself an artist. a teenage voice in the mix. a collective. Yoko Akama, Martina Copley, Linda Dement, Pia Ednie-Brown, Anna Farago, Cleo Farago, Maria Griffin, Lucinda Strahan.
What is it? a textual compost. a continuous script experiment. a way of being together. a place to write. a continuation of grief. choral fragments, wormholes. a refusal of rhetorical continuity. an effervescent experiment. a paradox: together while held apart. collective text written week by week from March 2020 to March 2021. fingers dancing on keyboards. light traveling at 299 792 458 meters per second. 56, 567 words written into a Google document. transpersonal. gentle. slow and fast. thoughts pinned to my back. intersubjective. machine-mediated. poetic. the text in disarray. seeding growth. recasting. Coded by Linda Dement.
On Wednesday 22 June 2022, 19:00–19:30 AEST to coincide with the launch of Issue 45: Asemic, Runway Journal hosted a participatory performance of the work ‘Writing the Virus’ with the Expanded Writers Collective. Audiences were invited to join the Zoom grid in this live, collective reading.
What are you? anxious. sick. relieved. stressed. resting. working. so enjoying this process. a coven. a girl band. a support network. friends. settlers. immigrants. fluid. riffing. sonorous. multiple. not playing solo. a reader. a chorus. one of many voices. feeling more comfortable calling myself an artist. a teenage voice in the mix. a collective. Yoko Akama, Martina Copley, Linda Dement, Pia Ednie-Brown, Anna Farago, Cleo Farago, Maria Griffin, Lucinda Strahan.
What is it? a textual compost. a continuous script experiment. a way of being together. a place to write. a continuation of grief. choral fragments, wormholes. a refusal of rhetorical continuity. an effervescent experiment. a paradox: together while held apart. collective text written week by week from March 2020 to March 2021. fingers dancing on keyboards. light traveling at 299 792 458 meters per second. 56, 567 words written into a Google document. transpersonal. gentle. slow and fast. thoughts pinned to my back. intersubjective. machine-mediated. poetic. the text in disarray. seeding growth. recasting. Coded by Linda Dement.
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