This semester, Ada Maricia Patterson joins the Jewellery–Linking Bodies department with a six-week workshop she’s developed for the second-year students, in the lead up to their thesis. We’re thrilled to welcome her.
This workshop invites students to sharpen their writing practices. Guided by collective readings of texts that throw punches, texts with teeth and pointy edges, we will use generative prompts and free-writing exercises as tools for getting to the heart of our own practices. We will get closer to what is at stake in the words we use around what we do and make. We will let urgency guide us towards what we want and need to write about. While prioritising a more poetic, creative writing approach, we will also sharpen our need to make sense of things through more analytical and critical forms of writing. We will honour and write back to our most precious references. We will consider the connections between art practices and writing practices. Lastly, we will consider the connections between writing for something and fighting for something.
Ada Maricia Patterson is an artist, writer and educator based between Barbados, London and Amsterdam. She works with drawing, masquerade, music, performance, poetry, textiles and video, considering the connections between storytelling, transformation, crisis, grief, rage, disappearance, discretion, self-defence and survival. She is an alumna resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.