Building Faculties

Abstract

Drawing on relational, embodied and sensuous activations of performing arts practices, “Building Faculties” traces a shared practice workshop as a performance score in the shape of a collaborative writing assemblage. Its writing, images and recurring sound retell the unfolding of a co-hosted workshop and the working sessions that led up to it. Following a compositional structure, the pieces are written by the five hosts and two workshop participants. Authors alternate from one piece of writing to another, and the modes of writing shift from description to close remembering, instruction and broader reflections. As a collaborative and participatory investigation of the theme “Powers of Love”, “Building Faculties” asks questions such as, how do transmissions of performative writing practices spur and intensify collective learning processes? How do practices rooted in shared attentiveness facilitate convivialities that manifest micro-instances of resistance as forms of institutional counter-conduct?

Keywords

• assemblage
• attentiveness
• collaborative writing
• collective learning
• institutional counter-conduct
• performance score
• re-telling
• shared practice workshop