Fragments and Flows: How do we write as the ocean?

From the connective sands and shore of South Melbourne Beach this hybrid workshop will explore what it means to write as the ocean. In a collaborative academic talk, meets workshop, meets performance — Logan Ramsay, will guide a stream of consciousness, augmented writing practice to explore how we might better tell relational story in the digital age by sending our writing practice to the waves. Audiences will be invited to part ways with the landed linear into ways of exploring the natural movement of volume, and even turbulence in a writing as oceanic thinking — charting a course for incorporating and navigating our own associations, imaginaries and metaphors, bringing cyclic flows, circuits and dynamic thinking to the written word and design. Audiences will engage with the site of Port Phillip Bay, connecting undersea data cable streams with the crinkling silica dioxide underfoot and will walk away with a deeper material engagement and relation with the digital world and writing practice.