We are making a boat, love: 30 years of experimental feminist writing in Australia

Quinn Eades; A. J. Carruthers; Alyson Campbell; Amelia Walker; Andy Jackson; Ann Vickery; Anna Couani; Anna Poletti; Antonia Pont; Beth Yahp; David Azul; Dominque Hecq; Emilie Collyer; Eugen Bacon; Jen Webb; Jessica L. Wilkinson; Julia Prendergast; Kate Lilley; Kris Kneen; Marion May Campbell; Martina Copley; Maude Davey; Melody Ellis; Moya Costello; Nike Sulway; Nina Baeyertz; Noëlle Janaczewska; Peta Murray; Rosslyn Prosser; Sari Smith; Susan K. Martin; Willo Drummond

We are making a boat, love: 30 years of experimental feminist writing in Australia

Quinn Eades, A. J. Carruthers, Alyson Campbell, Amelia Walker, Andy Jackson, Ann Vickery, Anna Couani, Anna Poletti, Antonia Pont, Beth Yahp, David Azul, Dominque Hecq, Emilie Collyer, Eugen Bacon, Jen Webb, Jessica L. Wilkinson, Julia Prendergast, Kate Lilley, Kris Kneen, Marion May CampbellMartina Copley, Maude Davey, Melody Ellis, Moya Costello, Nike Sulway, Nina Baeyertz, Noëlle Janaczewska, Peta Murray, Rosslyn Prosser, Sari Smith, Susan K. Martin, Willo Drummond

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“We are making a boat, love” is a bookish multimodal experiment-in-the-making that works with/into/because Ania Walwicz’s Boat (1989) and as an exemplar of Eades’s écriture matière (2015). In this work we boat build a corpus of experimental reflective and material writing that makes visible an extended and always present but often forgotten archive of creativecritical writing in this place named Australia. Following on from methods developed during their longitudinal blackout poetry project Sending Love, Eades and Rendle-Short tore out and sent (by post) a page of Boat to each writer. Writers worked with this page in any way they chose over the course of two weeks, then sent them back to return to the book, to be stitched and glued together, to make a love object, a vessel, a boat. Each writer was invited to write from/with/against these pages and these texts were cut up and rearranged into a series of paste poems that appear throughout the artists’ book. ‘We are making a boat, love’ offers a we-world (Jean Luc-Nancy), a collective, a communitas (Rendle-Short), a many voiced and irreverent conflagration.

Webb's contribution, House, is an engagement with Walwicz's work pp.75,76

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
Journal	Text (Australia)
Volume	28
Issue number	Special 73
Publication status	Published - 2024

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Eades, Q., Carruthers, A. J., Campbell, A., Walker, A., Jackson, A., Vickery, A., Couani, A., Poletti, A., Pont, A., Yahp, B., Azul, D., Hecq, D., Collyer, E., Bacon, E., Webb, J., Wilkinson, J. L., Prendergast, J., Lilley, K., Kneen, K., ... Drummond, W. (2024). We are making a boat, love: 30 years of experimental feminist writing in Australia. Text (Australia), 28(Special 73), 1-12. https://heyzine.com/flip-book/4abd482bc4.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawHDb25leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWoukCZSAdoJWyboHKeKAZXeCg557n0YyA1deuqLcDO06RPMnx0Bq9AY_g_aem_-H5k2NmTJ7rkEDkZuEiJoA#page/1

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