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Playing in the water: an exquisite corpse and found river and underwater poems
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Asha Sahni
cultural geographies, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Start page: 147447402110398
Swansea University Authors:
Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley, Daphne Giannoulatou
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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/14744740211039827
Abstract
This article shares and reflects on Underwater Haiku Exquisite Corpse – a playful approach to writing and enquiry about rivers and their underwater environments. The Underwater Haiku Exquisite Corpse was an adaptation of the Surrealist exquisite corpse concept – a collaborative game in which each pa...
| Published in: | cultural geographies |
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| ISSN: | 1474-4740 1477-0881 |
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SAGE Publications
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57744 |
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This article shares and reflects on Underwater Haiku Exquisite Corpse – a playful approach to writing and enquiry about rivers and their underwater environments. The Underwater Haiku Exquisite Corpse was an adaptation of the Surrealist exquisite corpse concept – a collaborative game in which each participant wrote or drew in response to a prompt and kept their contribution concealed until the end, when the full corpse was revealed to all contributors. We consider how our approach to exquisite corpse fostered playful co-creation and community and contributed to better understanding people’s experiences with and intuitive responses to river environments. This article blends academic writing and found poems (existing words or phrases reframed into a poem) from Underwater Haiku Exquisite Corpse, in response to calls for more creative and entangled ways to write about the world. We applied this technique, using lines of text by different Underwater Haiku Exquisite Corpse contributors and reordering lines into poems that illustrated how contributors intertwined notions of humans, rivers, and what lies below the surface. We hope that by sharing our experiences with the Underwater Haiku Exquisite Corpse, we encourage more playful approaches to geopoetics, to foster conversations across disciplines, as well as within and outside the academy. |
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| Keywords: |
Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Cultural Studies, Geography, Planning and Development |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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1 |
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147447402110398 |