Writing Womxn –A collaboration between Decorating Dissidence X Lucy Writers Platform exploring ways of writing about and writing through the women of Dada.
THE SALON
This salon brings together writers and curators for an experimental writing session that will celebrate and critique the legacy of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag, Mina Loy, Hannah Höch, other Dada women and experimental writers.
Keying in to the salon’s collaborative spirit, our writers will create a modern day manifesto for an inclusive, democratic contemporary avant-garde. Find below examples of their work for Lucy Writers as well as jumping off points to explore more womxn of the avant-garde.
The session will be facilitated by Rochelle Roberts and Elodie Barnes. Participants include writers Kuchenga, Susanna Crossman, and Miriam Al Jamil.
Salon Host
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Rochelle Roberts
on Claude Cahun
Rochelle Roberts is a writer based in London. She has an interest in visual art and poetry. In 2019 she was shortlisted for Streetcake magazine’s Experimental Writing Prize and her non-fiction and poetry have been published by Lucy Writers Platform, Severine, Visual Verse, Eye Flash Poetry and Streetcake magazine, amongst others. Rochelle also works for the art publisher Lund Humphries as Assistant Editor.
More ‘Postcards in Isolation’ More ‘Postcards in Isolation’
Salon Host
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Elodie Rose Barnes
on Mina Loy
Elodie Rose Barnes is an author and photographer. She can be found between Paris, Spain and the UK (usually mixing up her languages) while her most recent words can be found in Amethyst Review, Clover & White & Neologism Poetry Journal. Her work is heavily influenced by Modernism and Surrealism, and her poetry x photography series Fragments of Paris was inspired in part by Mina Loy’s Lunar Baedeker. She is guest editor of the forthcoming Life in Language series at Lucy Writers’ Platform. Find her online at http://elodierosebarnes.
‘Double Exposure’
‘Double Exposure’
‘Tiny Molecules’
‘Tiny Molecules’
LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.
OPEN your arms to the dilapidated; rehabilitate them.
the Future is only dark from outside.
Leap into it—and it EXPLODES with Light.
– From ‘Aphorisms on Futurism’ by Mina Loy
Excerpts from Loy’s archive [fully digitised here]
- Aphorisms on Futurism, pg1
- Feminist Manifesto, p1
- Feminist Manifesto, pg2
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Salon Participants
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Susanna Crossman is an award-winning Anglo-French fiction writer and essayist, published internationally in print and online. She has recent/upcoming work in Paris Review, MAI Journal, Neue Rundschau, (2019) S. Fischer, We’ll Never Have Paris, Repeater Books (2019), Trauma, DodoInk (2020) 3:AM Journal, Berfrois & more. Susanna regularly collaborates and runs international hybrid arts projects. She is co-author of the French roman L’Hôpital Le Dessous des cartes (LEK, 2015) and her debut novel Dark Island will be published by Delcourt (FR) in 2021.
‘The Only Believers’ ‘The Only Believers’ Website WebsiteKuchenga is a Black transsexual feminist whose work seeks to cleave souls open with truth and sincerity. She has been published in many online magazines including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. She chooses to live wherever her heart leads her. She is proud to be called a ‘lady of letters’ and a ‘woman of wanderlust’. She is currently writing a novel telling the tale of a young black trans girl from North London whose triumphant journey takes her down a path of sexual scandal, substance abuse and a mission to prove the Jamaican family legend that she is a descendant of Admiral Horatio Nelson. In the years to come she hopes to follow in the footsteps of Marie Daulne and Johny Pitts to see if she can become a true ‘Afropean’.
‘Surpassing Small Minds’ ‘Surpassing Small Minds’ Website WebsiteMiriam Al Jamil has a B.Ed. in English and Education from Wolfson College, Cambridge, and MAs from The University of Kent, Canterbury, and King’s College, London. Her current research is on women’s engagement with Classical sculpture in the eighteenth century, on women travellers and Grand Tour material culture. Miriam has given many conference papers in the UK and recently in France. She is part of the Johnson Society, the Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837, and chairs the Burney Society UK. She has contributed a chapter to Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture, recently published by Brill. She is Fine Arts Review Editor for BSECS Criticks online and contributes reviews to a variety of academic journals and online platforms.
A collaborative side-bar poem
creating a manifesto demanding…
s p a c e
p r o t e s t
c o l l a b o r a t i o n
writing to inspire…
FEMINIST MANIFESTO – Mina Loy (1914)
FEMINIST MANIFESTO – Mina Loy (1914)
Fire!! – a little magazine (1926)
Fire!! – a little magazine (1926)
APPALLING HEART – The Baroness (1920)
APPALLING HEART – The Baroness (1920)
Subjoy Ride – The Baroness (1920)
Subjoy Ride – The Baroness (1920)
The Great Spirit – Zitkala-Sa (1921)
The Great Spirit – Zitkala-Sa (1921)
Douce Savance – Jessie Redmon Fauset
Douce Savance – Jessie Redmon Fauset
Experiments in typography [dada+beyond]
- Anni Albers, Typewriter study to create textile effect, n.d. Typewriter printing in blue ink on paper mounted on board, 27 x 16.8 cm. Made on Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter. Printed in 1974 monograph by Albers.
- Ruth Asawa, Untitled (BMC on newsprint), c.1946-1949. Stamped ink on newsprint.
- Natalie Czech, A hidden poem by E. E. Cummings #4, 2012. Doppelseitiger Druck, Cut-Out, 43 x 35 cm.
- M. NourbeSe Philip, Excerpt from ẸBỌRA from Zong!, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, and Toronto: Mercury Press, 2008.
- Salette Tavares, Kinetofonia Parlapatisse, Typography, 1965.
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