Public Readings – Writing in the Expanded Field #3: Overlapping Writing

ACCA and the non/fictionLab at RMIT are pleased to present a live snapshot of outcomes and processes from the 2021 program of Writing in the Expanded Field Volume 3: Overlapping Writing, developed in conjunction with ACCA’s summer show Overlapping Magisteria. Program participants: Des Barry, Anna Kate Blair, Alisa Blakeney, Sophia Cai, Kate Jama, Peta Murray, Diego Ramirez, Autumn Royal, Audrey Schmidt and Tina Stefanou. Encompassing living organisms, kinetic installations and immersive assemblages, Overlapping Magisteria pays attention to multiple ways of knowing, sensing, feeling and interacting with the world. The works by participating artists draw on various social, cultural, technical and material forms, unsettling the lingering divide between nature and culture towards more complex realms of knowledge and experience. Participants from Writing in the Expanded Field, Volume 3: Overlapping Writing have taken these exhibition themes as a provocation for further exploring what is possible when we shift position so that instead of writing about art we write with and from art. Building on the discoveries of Writing in the Expanded Field Volume 1 and Volume 2, and the ongoing inquiries of RMIT non/fictionLab, writer/participants are exploring embodiment, feeling, and intuition in the writer’s encounter with art, situating material, poetic and playful ways of knowing alongside critical and curatorial perspectives. Writers have also participated in an overlapping, or ‘cross-over writing’, methodology that explores decentred authorship and cacophonous voice alongside the development of individual pieces.