FOTODOK x WORM - Writing Workshop with Joyelle Mcsweeney (USA) ^USA

Dream Gardens of the The Necropastoral is a workshop by Joyelle McSweeney taking place on the occasion of the exhibition Radiations of War by Yana Kononova, hosted by WORM and initiated by FOTODOK. McSweeney contributed to the first artist’s photobook published by FOTODOK and XYZ Books and launched during the exhibition opening. We are glad to welcome her in Rotterdam for a special meeting with our audience!

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

What is a nature poem in 2025? What kind of language might we need to use -- or invent-- to describe that border where the natural meets the unnatural, the technological, the human? How might poetry, as a heightened, intense, and even unnatural use of language, allow us to articulate these emergent zones of exchange and possibility, allowing us to envision and manifest dream gardens of memory, joy and survival?

In the first half of this session, we will discuss these questions and use prompts and generative exercises to build up an intense, various, multiplicitous bank of language known as "hyperdiction". In the second half, we will use our hyperdiction to envision the dream gardens of the future, a complex, complicated, mutant zone of possibility, collaboration and growth.

Participants should bring their writing materials of choice.

We have limited spots available, your ticket includes coffee, tea and soup!