No Notes (this is writing) is a continuous collaborative work in the form of a loose dialogue between Francesca Rendle-Short and Martina Copley written on iphones that arose out of a shared interest in what it means to practice writing or something other.
Category: Immersive Practices
The Near and The Far
The Near and The Far: stories from the Asia-Pacific, David Carlin and Francesca Rendle-Short (eds) From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them. A wonderful advance review by Sonia Nair in Books + Publishing: ‘Born out of WrICE—a program of reciprocal residencies…
Parsing the aside
‘Parsing the Aside‘ was conceived after receiving an invitation from Martina Copley: ‘In this parsing exercise, a writer-and-academic is invited to respond in writing to the visual work of a visual-artist-and-student-academic in exhibition. What follows is an account of the process as writing experience, replete with pause, reflection, improvisation; considered reflexivity, digression, resistance, repetition, proposition, and echoes…
STREAT Creative Inkubator
#streatstories RMIT’s non/fictionLab and STREAT are partnering in a collaborative creative project that connects city dwellers to each other and to the wider community through writing and storytelling. STREAT is a social enterprise dedicated to stopping youth disadvantage and homelessness ‘one meal at a time’. The RMIT/STREAT Creative Inkubator or #STREATstories aims to foster a meaningful sense of…
Essaying the fabpod
An improvised experimental collaborative account of the uncertain cultural life and futures of the fabpod, as of August 21, 2014. The associated ibook (i.e. Apple only) is available for download. How might the affordances of the essay as a writing practice be brought to bear within a workshop framework of collaborative improvisation, in response to…
non/fictionLab
Francesca Rendle-Short is co-founder of the non/fictionLab research group in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She was co-director with David Carlin and Adrian Miles from 2011-2017. The non/fictionLab is a research centre for scholars, writers and creative practitioners. We experiment with contemporary realities through story, dialogue, poetics and partnerships. We foster…
Tyrone Guthrie residency
Francesca went to Tyrone Guthrie Centre Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan in Ireland for an artist’s residency in July 2014, where she made new work. Read more.
WrICE: Vietnam 2015
In 2015 Francesca Rendle-Short participated as writer and co-director in WrICE Vietnam, a collaborative residency in Vietnam, Hoi An and Ha Noi, followed by a reciprocal residency in Melbourne Australia. She was joined by a diverse and exciting group of writers: Singaporean writer Suchen Christine Lim Vietnamese poet Bao Chan Nguyen Filipina writer Jhoanna Lynn B….
WrICE: Penang and Singapore 2014
In February 2014 Francesca took part in WrICE: the Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange in Penang, Malaysia and in Singapore. This project was supported generously by Copyright Agency. WrICE is a program of reciprocal cultural exchange and cultural immersion focused on writers and writing. This immersive experience included writers from Australia: Melissa Lucashenko, Maxine Beneba Clarke,…
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