The practice that I’ve been doing for several years can also be understood as a tool for entering into the creative working modality in the studio space. I have been developing these practices in various projects and collaborations and in my own work. As I am interested in creating a safe and playful collective co-working environment I have found that I need first to integrate the physical with the emotional and the mental in my warm up. 

One of the most reassuring characteristics of these practices is the immediacy and lightness toward making something from nothing. For instance, one of my main practices is a writing exercise in which two people write while watching another person improvise with closed eyes, for 10 minutes. Afterwards the two writers will simultaneously read their texts aloud, while the third will write a new text that is in fact a hybrid of the two. 

 

In order to sculpt an associative and non- linear text, I use the multitasking required to being on several trajectories at the same time. Writing, observing and letting one’s observation create a distraction can assist with curving one’s thoughts abruptly from one thought to another. As a result, this curve creates an unsettling text that gushes out of an unsettled mind. This state of mind is what I find immensely inspiring and generative for my work.