Participatory Experiences: SCRIBE

In French, English and drawings

SCRIBE is designed as a live writing project within festival and event contexts in which artist-scribes capture the experience of members of the public to create an affective archive of their live experience. The collections take place in an intimate face-to-face with a designated ‘Scribe’ who listens, converses, and records the experience in writing / drawing / and other graphic mediums. The writing session is framed by carefully aestheticised details: a customised, hand-crafted, portable writing desk, hand-made block stamps; archival papers and the unique hand of each Scribes' writing / drawing / design. SCRIBE is a listening ritual, a listening to each individual and their unique experience of the live events they are engaging with. The documents gathered build a publicly made poetic effective and affective Archive, held by the host festival for future public engagement, research and access. Leisa Shelton and her scribes will be at the CIG during the duration of the FORUM. Be curious, let yourself be scribed!

Leisa Shelton is an independent artist, educator + curator working in Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Europe and India. Her practice and pedagogies foreground collaboration and trans-disciplinarity with a focus on questions of contemporary cultural identity and processes to enable greater social valuing the role of artists within our society. She was curator for Australian artists with the Venice Performance Art Week, initiated and curated the Taiwan eXchange, dance program and has built diverse multi-lingual teams of Scribes for festivals across Australia, in the UK, Canada and Berlin.