Crippling Autobiographical Practice laying with tangents repetition & chaos

A series of workshops exploring different ways to approach autobiographical work from a playful, Disability-led lens.

The third and final of three workshops exploring different ways to approach autobiographical work from a playful, Disability-led lens.

These are based on the work that Elana has been doing over the last year, grappling with how to represent their experience when it’s very hard to write a linear narrative when you’re constantly in a state of flux and you can’t really remember what happened or in what order.

In this workshop, we’ll consider:
How might we represent different aspects of our Disabled experiences through form? What happens to our writing when we play with tangents, repetition, interruption, chaos and fragmentation?

We will take existing content (either the raw material made in the last workshop, or something else you have been working on) and experiment with it, share back & reflect together.



About Elana
Elana Binysh is an interdisciplinary artist working across sound, writing + performance. She creates sensory environments for audiences to give themselves over to + be swallowed up by, that explore transgression, shame + grossness.

Her work is informed by Crip theory + offers one version of Disabled identity: raucous, multifaceted + disgusting/sexy as two sides of the same coin.

Her current work I think it was a feeling is an instruction based headphone piece designed to be listened to at home alone about sensation, control and incontinence. It’s brash, tender + smutty. It asks the listener to reconsider their relationship to bodily fluids, if they can shut out the societal shame for a minute. Because maybe pissing yourself actually feels good.
It’s been shown at Emergency, Free Range + V&A.

She’s previously worked with The Yard, National Theatre, Punchdrunk, Bristol Old Vic, Cambridge Junction + Prague Quadrennial.

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