Shouting into the Floor: Writing Through an Audience
摘要
This chapter explores how the immediacy and physicality of audience interaction can help students (and teachers) develop as writers and expand their understanding of the writing and re-writing process. In addition to questioning the idea of writing as a solitary act, and insisting that it rather is a collaborative act, Skoglund advocates for a broader understanding of text to include sound and image and writing to be more than putting words on paper. This chapter then looks closer at what it means to have an audience and experience the feedback of an audience through two well established class projects for the creative writing students at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences. It is shown how Close Encounters on Public Transportation and Sound Poetry are both projects that focus on performativity and moving the students out of their comfort zone. This chapter concludes by showing how this focus on communicating with an audience in pedagogical projects has influenced Skoglund’s own practice when writing and re-writing as well as how she shares her writing.