What’s your language? A gadget-language, a Not-Me language, a stream-language, a language that doesn’t-know- exactly-what-it-is? What does this language reflect? What do you want it to be? A cocoon-language, a bee-language, a kitchen-language, a language-that-knows-exactly-what-it-says?

(Re)defining words, concepts, things, and feelings can be a gesture of repair and a fresh start. “One day we’ll sleep with the dictionary and that ​will be all” is an 8-week experimental writing workshop centred around the making of idiosyncratic dictionaries. Throughout the workshop, you will draw from dreams, recent wishes and archives of feelings in order to write your own dictionary. Each entry will reflect your own perception of what it means to be alive here, today. Just as we keep writing at all costs. Just as we love.

The title of the workshop is a line from my poem “Centuries are far from definitive texts” that alludes to Harryette Mullen’s collection “Sleeping with the Dictionary” (2002). She writes: “Any exit from the logic of language might be an entry in a symptomatic dictionary. The alphabetical order of this ample block of knowledge might render a dense lexicon of lucid hallucinations.

Workshop Title: One day we’ll sleep with the dictionary and that ​will be all
Duration: 8 weeks
Day & Time: Wednesdays, 18:30-20:30, Athens time
New Workshop Dates: June 5, 12, 19, 26/ July 4, 10, 17, 24 2024
Location: at textlab’s space in Exarchia, Athens and Virtual
Language: English