Workshop description:

I have made the decision

to do a series of workshops

in my living room.

They will not be called “workshops.”

They will be called dis-orders,

or fanfares,

or perhaps, songs.

I like to write

in close proximity to others,

without necessarily

writing the same text,

or our writings overlapping.

There is something in proximity

that generates forest,

microclimate, energy,

electricity, spark.

A philosopher, Marina Garcés, says that

Rodin’s figure “the thinker”

is the antithesis of thought,

because it is alone, naked, without context.

One thinks in contact and friction

with the world and with others,

she says.

I, while I rock in the hammock

in my living room, believe her.

I also believe

that our bodies think

differently when they are not

disciplined at a desk

or a desk under white lights, 

but lying down,

or stretched out on the floor,

or swinging in a hammock,

shoeless, curled up,

comfortable on a sofa.

Therefore, I want to orchestrate these meetings,

to think and write

in proximity

in the space I have available:

the living room of my house.

Song 1:

D(e)bts, un-employment,

desire, poetry

Many poets and writers lived (we do )

in debt and with economic hardships.

Some wrote about it,

most wrote (we write) in the midst of it.

The first workshop/disorder/SONG of this series,

will have four sessions

and will deal (will write verses) around this issue.

We will read poems and some essays

that arise/operate/sing/think about work,

precariousness, time, debts,

and in the middle of it all, desire.

We will read poetry and writings by

Frank O’hara (USA), Begoña Ugalde (Chile),

Cristina Rivera Garza (Mex), Sara Uribe (Mex),

Franz Kafka (Prague), Lunero Páez (Cali)

among others.

And we will experiment with writing.

What are and what could be the writings

in the middle of debt and precariousness?

What are the writings of appetite and desire?

What form do the writings of hunger

and thirst have? Is working living? Do we live to work?

Is work meaningful? What is the place of desire

and of the wild in the midst of employment,

multi-employment, unemployment?

I am a writer, poet and visual artist.

I am interested in proposing workshops 

or schools that operate

like a poem

that escape from academic logic

that allow us to be snails and platypuses,

slow and graceful animals

with their own strangeness.

I studied philosophy to question

the obvious and the incomprehensible.

I discovered that I seek the point where

philosophy runs into the limits of language

and there, philosophy and poetry become

indistinguishable.