Getting Stuck? How to Use Visual-Art Methods to Free Your Writing Practice
Environmental Writing Studio Workshop with Angela Antle
02.07.2025 12:00 – 14:00
Location: conference room, fourth floor, RCC
with Landhaus Writer-in-Residence Angela Antle
Writing spontaneously and together can be a transformative act of resistance. While all qualitative methods are leaky, creative writing continues to be undervalued in the academy as knowledge making that can redirect flows, challenge assumptions, and dissolve boundaries.
No art skills needed.
In this workshop, participants will use simple art techniques to trick their rational brain (it’s so judgy!) and get them writing. Together they will make memory maps, talk metaphors using the wise words of Ocean Vuong, and climb a “celery ladder” (you will have to attend to find out). They will write their own climate manifesto à la Zoe Leonard, and, if there is time, they will do some “carrier-bag collaging” in memory of Ursula K. Le Guin.
How will this help your academic writing? Come and find out.
The workshop is limited to 20 people. To sign up, please email pauline.kargruber@rcc.lmu.de.
Angela Antle is the 2025 Landhaus Writer-in-Residence, a multidisciplinary artist, documentary-maker, interdisciplinary PhD candidate (Memorial University of Newfoundland), and a member of Norway’s Empowered Futures: A Global Research School Navigating the Social and Environmental Controversies of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions.
This is an Environmental Writing Studio event. To find out more about the RCC’s writing studio, please go to this tab.