Moving the writing on Ether pad.
The Expanded Writer’s Collective (EWC) presented our third experiment Writing-with-Mould in response to US authoritarianism at the Nonfiction Now conference, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
Devising a mycelial collective writing method we invited attendees to decompose and regenerate language from the Department of Homeland Security’s Electronic System for Travel Authorisation. With Yoko Akama, Martina Copley, Pia Ednie-Brown, Anna Farago, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Lucinda Strahan. Coded by Linda Dement.
Collective text and fragments from Lispector’s Agua Viva mould the ESTA document in kinetic digital work by Linda Dement and Martina Copley.
Method and images from the session~ Creating the right conditions – attuning through breathing, feeling, sensing, lying on desks. Sporing – listening, imagining, associating words from Clarice Lispector’s Agua Viva scattered in the room and spoken by EWC. Germination or dormancy - writing down anything that has arisen. Mycelial Growth - live collective writing into Etherpad document. Decomposing, transfiguring - writing deeper into document moulding text taken from the USA Department of Homeland Security Electronic System for Travel Authority. Motility and fruiting body - moving the writing on paper or another space in the Etherpad Closing - reading together the mouldy text.