Son[i]a #425
Vivian Abenshushan
Mexican writer and editor Vivian Abenshushan considers writing to be a collective act—one built of borrowed words, in constant dialogue with others. As such, her practice takes shape in various ways, including essays that are ongoing works in progress, collaborative processes, publishing cooperatives, and counter-educational laboratories. Anchored in micropolitics, feminisms, and thinking through writing, her projects push the boundaries of books and pages. Through their presence-based, embodied writing-with-others, she explores other politics of time, which challenge the essential logic of capital and the tyranny of productivity.
In this podcast, Vivian Abenshushan talks us through a personal repertoire of textual practices, literary artefacts, collective devices, and commons methodologies that seek to contaminate the hegemonic literary space. Experimental practices and assemblages that become communal spaces, making room for other politics of language that are more sensitive, situated, and welcoming of complexity. In these spaces, digression, home stories, sheets of paper, quotes, plagiarism, open source, parties, malaise, and international networks become political acts and mechanisms of resistance.
In collaboration with:
Conversation: Ricardo Cárdenas, Javiera Cádiz, and Anna Ramos. Script: Ricardo Cárdenas. Sound production: Albert Tarrats. Voices: Valeria Brugnoli, Aitor Matías, Violeta Ospina, Anna Ramos, and Karina (Soundly Voice Designer).
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