Lignou-Tsamantani, Kyveli (2025) Blackout Poetry: Hopeless-to-Hopeful Textual Transformations. In: Hope in Creation, 30 June-1 July 2025, University of York. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

For this creative workshop, we will use Blackout Poetry as a method that allows us to transform hopeless texts into narratives of hope. We will engage with extracts from various types of written material – scholarly sources, activist, environmental campaigning or news reports – which all share a common theme: they revolve around negative human experiences of environmental crises, such as eco-anxiety or the threat of extinction. How can we use our creativity to rework these texts into hopeful readings? What might it mean to do so? And how can we think of our environmental ethics when transforming these narratives?

The workshop will begin with a brief introduction by Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani, which will contextualise those questions and present Blackout Poetry as a method that can allow us to re-read/re-write hopeless narratives. This draws from a longer project with blackout poetry – Found Words Experimental Workshops – that Kyveli has been co-organising since 2023 in a collaboration between the University of York, York St John University and the University of Thessaly (GR). Each participant will receive copies of short extracts, which we will have a communal reading of, before we start reworking them with various art material. We will conclude the workshop by sharing our hopeful narratives with the other members of the group, in order to rethink how we can build environmental futures that could be planted with seeds of hope.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Other)
Status:	Unpublished
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
School/Department:	School of the Arts
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/12281

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