How do we square the urgency of our political moment with the slow care typically required of traditional publishing? What modes of address are conducive to critiquing and proposing reform to the institutions we exist within?

Writing Rage uses the ongoing construction at Pushkin House as a backdrop for questions of textual dissent and institutional critique, drawing inspiration from guerilla publishing formats and strategies. Taking cues from Jenny Holzer’s ‘Inflammatory Essays’ (1979–82), John Giorno's poetry posters and Paul Virilio’s Speed and Politics (1986), among other examples, we will use this setting to consider urgency and furore, and its mobilisation in writing and language. This two-hour weeknight workshop will involve the production of short essays and collaborative manifestos for immediate dissemination, through guided reading, group discussion and prompts.

Materials supplied; no prior experience required. 

Elaine ML Tam is a freelance writer, Fieldnotes editor and occasional curator based in London. Her essays, short stories and poems have been published in anthologies, artist monographs and as exhibition text. 

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