Led by poet James Goodwin, this workshop responded to and activated the research archive that accompanies 4 Waters: Deep Implicancy, an immersive film installation by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman at The Showroom.

The workshop considered four floating concepts – intuition, content, composition and form – in relation to the materials on display in The Showroom Studio.

The afternoon involved reflexive and practical engagement with Ferreira da Silva and Neuman’s thinking. There was a guided discussion of the selected reading set in advance of the workshop, a viewing of the film 4 Waters: Deep Implicancy, some time to read, look at and listen to the archive material, and individual and group writing exercises.

Together participants contributed to and enacted the preservation and formlessness of the archive by thinking, writing, reading, sharing and studying the poetry written during the workshop.

Selected reading:

June Jordan, ‘Poem on Bell’s Theorem, or Haying the Field by Quantum Mechanics’; ‘Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love’; and ‘Last Poem on Bell’s Theorem, or Overriding the Local Common Sense of Causes to Effect’, 2017

Gwendolyn Brooks, ‘We Real Cool’, 1960

Etheridge Knight, ‘Haiku’, 1986

Fred Moten, ‘Poetics of The Undercommons’, 2016

Denise Ferreira da Silva, ‘On Difference Without Separability’, 2016