After a brief introduction to Surrealism’s ideology and women working in this medium (from its conception to present day), this workshop will use a series of writing exercises to encourage participants to reflect on their relationships with their bodies and how they can possibly be rewritten.

In an hour of reinterpreting and imagining, participants will be asked to blend art writing and personal narratives with a series of writing exercises and visual prompts, including imagery from Dorothea Tanning, Luchita Hurtado, and Dominique Fung, among other artists. This workshop will draw on quotes from surrealist women and activists within the disability justice movement to question why certain bodies are marginalised and how they can be reclaimed through writing.

* This workshop is open to people of all genders and will reflect on how women reclaimed their bodies while working within the gendered movement of Surrealism.

Bio: Jennifer Brough is a slow writer from Birmingham. Her work includes fiction and personal essays exploring the body, gender, pain and disability, art and literature. She is involved in projects centred in disability and feminism, including an art collaboration at Eastside Projects, and is a member of resting up collective, an interdisciplinary sick group of artists.