[ forthcoming online workshops]

​Speculative Architectures

w/ Angelica Maria Barraza, MFA
In this interdisciplinary online workshop, we will think through how our environments, established forms, cultural norms, etc. influence our experience--and production--of creative works. Using the blueprints of innovative, race-critical artists and poets such as Renee Gladman, Bhanu Kapil, Olalekan Jeyifous and others, we will discuss the possibilities and limitations of form to both reflect the world around us and re-build it. We will then apply a speculative lens to our own creative process; we will treat the creative process as a world-building process, and tease out new ways of inhabiting forms that are feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, [insert your vision of utopia here]. 

Unsettlement and Resurrection: A Word Laboratory

w/ Honora Spicer, MA
This course will engage creative practices for breaking into and breaking out of languages of colonization. 
Artists can build tools to dismantle language patterns formed through imperialism and settler colonialism. In a word laboratory, we'll explore poets who unearth histories of English as a settler language through investigations of keywords, etymologies, and (un)translations. We'll engage with the work of artists who break into and break out language on this level, in the name of unsettlement: M. NourbeSe Philip, Jena Osman, JD Pluecker, Solmaz Sharif, Rosmarie Waldrop, and others. In response, this workshop will play with words as a practice of unsettling colonial language, focusing especially on languages used in place names, tactics of occupation, market economics, and ethnologies. 

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Check out the 2021 workshop schedule 

Innisfree Workshop Series

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collective.aporia is an internationally inclusive community of creatives imagining & moving toward radical peace.
collective.aporia@gmail.com
Villeneuve-du-Latou, France
The mission of collective.aporia is to create an international community of artists, poets, writers, and thinkers through accessible and nurturing online spaces. This is why we have set the base donation amount at $40 for our asynchronous workshops. All of us at collective.aporia are working artists who believe that creatives should be paid fairly for their time. The suggested donation amounts are based on a breakdown of hourly income for the facilitator per student with 30% going to back to collective.aporia to help with the costs of our courses. 

For example, if a participant donates $100 for a four-week course, the facilitator will make $17.50 for each 1-hour class for that participant. All money that goes back to collective.aporia is used for organizing community events, printing our publications, website maintenance, and social justice outreach. 

If you have any questions about donations, please feel free to reach out at any time to collective.aporia@gmail.com
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