Swerve Fatigue: Writing with Drift and Embodied Attention with Jonathan González
Swerve Fatigue: Writing with Drift and Embodied Attention with Jonathan González
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Saturday, June 27, 3–4:30pm (1-day seminar) / Zoom
This 90-minute virtual workshop treats writing as an embodied, durational practice rather than a task oriented toward productivity or resolution. Drawing from choreographic research on fatigue, psychogeography, and non-performance, the workshop invites writers to work with interruption, uneven attention, and constraint as generative conditions for language.
Rather than asking participants to “push through,” the session frames fatigue, pause, drift, and refusal as compositional tools. Writers are encouraged to notice how pressure, repetition, distraction, and rest register in the body and how these states shape syntax, rhythm, and form. The workshop is designed to be accessible across energy levels, capacities, and genres; all prompts are invitations, not requirements.
Workshop Leader
Jonathan González
is an artist and scholar whose work engages research at the intersections of racialization, black geographies, creative practice and African diasporic literacies. These practices take on the form of prose, the choreographic, video art, sound, lecture and curation to engender interdisciplinary engagement towards otherwise modalities of collaboration, representation and study. González’s writings have been published by ASAP/J Journal, EAR | WAVE | EVENT, Regiones:CENTRAL, Movement Research Journal, Contemporaryand, Contact Quarterly, Cultured Magazine, deem journal, and Angela’s Pulse. González has received fellowships from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Art Matters Foundation, Wave Farm and the Jerome Foundation. González has been an artist in residence with numerous organizations including Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Loghaven Artist Residency.