Writing: Value

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Writing Value includes reflections on value and thinking prompts:

•   What are words worth?
•   What are your words worth?
•   How does value shift according to context and time?
•   How do we articulate the value of that which is intangible in a way that clearly upholds its worth?

This workshop is an exercise in exploring the value of a writing practice beyond external measures of success and income generation, though confronting the reality of creative economy. Writing: Value is an attempt to generate a temporary community that appraises experiment and reflection within writing practice. It embeds play as a strategy for reclaiming intangible yet life sustaining values.

In this workshop we will explore Chatsworth Road’s Sunday Market as a site of value exchange. we will buy from the market. We will also use Chatsworth Road to attempt to make a trade, give our words in exchange for something. We will engage with the question of What are words worth? through a few writing exercises that will experiment with ideas of trade, value and economy.

Workshop includes vegan gluten free lunch and a small stipend to use at the market as part of a creative exercise within the workshop.

About Sentient Value Systems/ What are Words Worth:

The project is set out to expand reflections on: The value of words. The value of utterance. What it means to witness and enact change. How can we write with the city as it shifts.
This is an ongoing collaboration between Le Melle and Valz Gen which started in 2018 and has included many outcomes such as the editorial process of Subversive Economies (Valz Gen, PSS PRess, 2018), PSS Press collaborative editorial practice (2019-2021) and a series of site interventions and workshops with invited artists and writers.