The Water Age Art & Writing Workshops

By Tracey Warr

The art and writing workshops in this book engage creatively and playfully with the possibility that we may be living with more water in the future. The topic of water is explored through writing and art exercises that include aquatic biomimicry inventions, writing with maps, drawing inspirations from Vikings and taking watery words on adventure

• Language: English
• Publisher: Meanda Books
• Release date: Aug 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9780995490246

Tracey Warr

Tracey Warr is a fiction and non-fiction writer. She describes herself as writing in the vicinity of art. She has been an invited writer in the following international projects: Exoplanet Lot (Maison des Art Georges et Claude Pompidou), Frontiers in Retreat (HIAP, Finland) and Zooetics (Jutempus, Lithuania). She was a senior university lecturer including posts at Darlington College of Arts, Oxford Brookes University and Bauhaus University. Her historical novels, set in France, England and Wales, are published by Impress Books: Almodis the Peaceweaver (2011), The Viking Hostage (2014), Conquest I: Daughter of the Last King (2016) and Conquest II: The Drowned Court (2017). www.impress-books.co.uk. Her fiction has received awards from Literature Wales and Santander and was shortlisted for the Impress Prize. Her published work on contemporary art includes The Artist's Body (Phaidon, 2000), Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture (Routledge, 2015) and The Midden (Garret, 2018) and many essays published with Tate, Intellect, Merrell/Barbican and others. She is currently working on a biography entitled Three Female Lords, about three sisters who lived in southern France and northern Spain in the 11th century. The biography has been supported by an Authors' Foundation Award. traceywarrwriting.com

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The Water Age Art and Writing Workshops

THE WATER AGE ART AND WRITING WORKSHOPS

A Workbook

TRACEY WARR

Meanda Books

Copyright © 2018 by Tracey Warr

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The Water Age #2: Art and Writing Workshops/ Tracey Warr. -- 1st ed.

ISBN 978-0-9954902-4-6

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THE WATER AGE SERIES

The Water Age and Other Fictions (#1)

The Water Age Art and Writing Workshops (#2)

The Water Age Children’s Art and Writing Workshops (#3)

The Water Age is a series of three books by Tracey Warr. The books contemplate water and futures through fiction and through art and writing workshops. The books were produced as part of the Frontiers in Retreat project. They were co-produced by HIAP, with the support of the EU Culture Programme.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

CONTENTS

Topic—The Water Age

Illustration: Bruce Gilchrist

Aquatic Biomimicry

Illustration: The Wet Symposium

Walking, Mapping, Writing

Viking Readings of the Marine Environment

Writing with Water

Ecology of Words

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Also by Tracey Warr

TOPIC—THE WATER AGE

The art and writing workshops in this book engage creatively and playfully with the possibility that we may be living with more water in the future. The workshops were all devised and presented by me over the course of a number of art projects which are detailed in the Thanks section of this book. By collecting the workshops together in this book, I hope that other artists, writers and workshop leaders will be able to adapt and use