Ekphrastic Experiments with Khairani Barokka

How can you play with form and your senses to write art-inspired poems? What can using different art forms as prompts do for rhythm and structure, and how can a poem be presented in multiple ways? Join us for a workshop that uses diverse forms of art as jumping-off points to jog your creativity and enhance your understanding of ekphrasis as intermedial translation.

You will look at ekphrastic poetry by Victoria Chang, Aziza Barnes, and Natasha Trethewey. Then you'll be invited to write your own ekphrastic work, inspired by excerpts from filmic work by Natalia Escobar and Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau, visual art by Lubaina Himid, and performance art by Melati Suryodarmo.

Khairani Barokka is a writer and artist from Jakarta, shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in 2024. Her work centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis, environmental justice, and access as translation. She is the author…