Friday, February 11, 2022
2-4pm EST, on Zoom
In this workshop, I will share some of the dream recall, recording and editing strategies I’ve used when creating my “Pandemic Dreams” comic series, and talk about my interest in writing and drawing about my dreams as a way of navigating the space between documentation and fiction. We will discuss strategies of selection that can be used to distill and convey the feeling and narrative? of a dream; how dream recording can be a meaningful personal exercise; and how it can also be approached as a gesture of sociability, with a reader / viewer in mind.
This workshop will include some hands-on zine-making activities of a few single-sheet structures, as well as short writing and drawing exercises that activate these zine structures into platforms for our dreams.
Participants are welcome to share their own dream writing and comics created during this workshop.
To follow along in the exercises, please have with you:
a dream you remember
6 sheets of paper that are easy to fold by hand (I will be using 8.5 x 11” printer (bond) paper for my demonstrations but you can use other types you might have on hand)
a ruler
scissors or an exacto knife with a surface to cut on (for example, a piece of corrugated cardboard or a self-healing cutting mat)
a pencil
an eraser
Jenny Lin is a visual artist based in Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. Working with experimental narrative and autobiographical fiction, primarily in the form of print-based installations, artists’ books and zines, Lin is drawn to the socio-political, accessible and community-based aspects of print and zine-making, self-publishing and self-distribution. Lin uses drawing and text as a way to process life experiences and current events, parsing situations into visual sequences that move through, in particular, discomfort, ambiguity and uncertainty. She has collaborated with Eloisa Aquino as B&D Press, a queer art and micropress project, since 2009. Lin was involved as a core member of Qouleur Qollective, a member of articule’s Fabulous Committee, and cofounded the Queer Print Club at Concordia University where she teaches as a sessional instructor in the Print Media Program Area.