CORRUPT
a three-part experimental writing workshop on rurality and post-socialist belonging
November ‘25
This workshop invites people with connections or interest in rural places to explore the quiet, often-unspoken forms of intimacy, solidarity, and refusal that shape post-socialist rural life.
Over three sessions (4 hours each), we move from theory to text to making: theoretical and social prompts drawn from Eastern European and queer feminist thinking inform the writing exercises; we develop those texts through editing and feedback; and finally, we make a small collective publication (zine) that captures the work and methods we’ve tested.
No prior experience required, lunch included (vegetarian, vegan on request), donation-based or free to attend. Language: english, romanian, basic dutch. Accessibility note: venues are not wheelchair accessible.
Drop me a text at:writing.rural.relations@gmail.com
Priority given to those who can attend all 3 sessions. Research supported by CBK Rotterdam.
The title CORRUPT is borrowed from Veda Popovici’s essay “Solidarity in Illegality: How the Corrupt East Is Already a Queer East” which uses notions of corruption as a way to describe the informal, affective, and often invisible solidarities that sustain life beyond state or capitalist logics.
SCHEDULE
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Session 1: Sunday 2nd November (10.30 - 14.30)— at
Session 2: Sunday 9th November (10.30 - 14.30) — at
Session 3: Friday 12th December (10.30 - 14.30) — at
About the venues:
KIOSK Bookshop
KIOSK Rotterdam is a bookshop, (riso) print workshop, and Multi Tool Press. The selection hosts radical/critical theory, fiction, poetry and self-publishing practices.
Made possible by a financial contribution from CBK Rotterdam
writing, rural, east europe, post-socialism, workshop
Over three sessions (4 hours each), we move from theory to text to making: theoretical and social prompts drawn from Eastern European and queer feminist thinking inform the writing exercises; we develop those texts through editing and feedback; and finally, we make a small collective publication (zine) that captures the work and methods we’ve tested.
No prior experience required, lunch included (vegetarian, vegan on request), donation-based or free to attend. Language: english, romanian, basic dutch. Accessibility note: venues are not wheelchair accessible.
Drop me a text at:
writing.rural.relations@gmail.com
Priority given to those who can attend all 3 sessions. Research supported by CBK Rotterdam.
The title CORRUPT is borrowed from Veda Popovici’s essay “Solidarity in Illegality: How the Corrupt East Is Already a Queer East” which uses notions of corruption as a way to describe the informal, affective, and often invisible solidarities that sustain life beyond state or capitalist logics.
SCHEDULE
-Session 1: Sunday 2nd November (10.30 - 14.30)— at
WET, Rotterdam
Introduces 3–4 theoretical prompts (examples: post-socialist subjectivities, corruption, quiet resistance, fugitive intimacies) through short readings and conversation to open writing prompts.Session 2: Sunday 9th November (10.30 - 14.30) — at
WET, Rotterdam
Peer-editing and development session using editorial exercises to deepen drafts.Session 3: Friday 12th December (10.30 - 14.30) — at
Kiosk Rotterdam, Rotterdam
Hands-on making session: layout, folding, and simple binding to produce a small-run riso zine.About the venues:
WET
WET is a Rotterdam-based collective and project space for artists’ moving image, founded in 2019 by Marta Hryniuk, Erika Roux, Anna Łuczak, Nick Thomas and Sophie Bates. WET is a platform for public events, with a focus on artworks which challenge existing orthodoxies and propose alternative perspectives, and supports the production of moving image works.KIOSK Bookshop
KIOSK Rotterdam is a bookshop, (riso) print workshop, and Multi Tool Press. The selection hosts radical/critical theory, fiction, poetry and self-publishing practices.Made possible by a financial contribution from CBK Rotterdam
writing, rural, east europe, post-socialism, workshop
