Simone Weil (1909-1943)

“USE THE I TO BREAK DOWN I” : : The Godhead And Her or How To Disappear Completely (feminine)

Join us on Thursday 1st May for this Art/Work Association workshop, where poets D Mortimer and Hesse K will delve into Simone Weil and the (mad) poetics of attention. Through close reading and writing exercises, they’ll explore how the self can paradoxically be used to dismantle fixed ideas of identity and subjectivity – using an experimental, ‘mad’ approach to text-making and poetics.

Expect group reading, solo writing, and optional sharing.

To book, please register here, or contact info@artworkassociation.org

Hesse K is a doll of no renown, alleged ‘cult emerging lit-girl’, and the author of Disquiet Drive, published by Pilot Press in July 2024

D Mortimer is a writer and artist from London interested in the intersecting worlds of trans and crip subjectivities. Their first book Last Night a Beef Jerk Saved My Life was published by Pilot Press in 2021. And their follow up pamphlet SPEED GLUM HERO was published by Sticky Fingers Publishing in 2024. Mortimer holds a doctorate from The University of Roehampton. Their research concerns the technologies of madness and their creative-critical doctoral thesis was titled, The Beef Journals: Naming the Uncertain in Transgender Subject Formation (2024).